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Benton County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 22th highest paid in Washington
Claims
108
Total paid
$1.5M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$1.2M / $285K
Paid by decade
1970s$616 · 4 claims
1980s$22K · 12 claims
1990s$959K · 48 claims
2000s$175K · 14 claims
2010s$104K · 19 claims
2020s$201K · 11 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $858K | 34 claims |
| 2025 | $201K | 10 claims |
| 2009 | $161K | 13 claims |
| 1990 | $62K | 5 claims |
| 2015 | $44K | 3 claims |
Full disaster history for Benton County →
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Source: FEMA OpenFEMA, NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (OpenFEMA NfipClaims v3, retrieved 2026-09) — dollars actually paid on closed claims, summed from individual claim transactions. This is a record of the past. It is not a flood-risk forecast, an insurance rating, or a judgment about any specific property. For current risk see FEMA's Flood Map Service Center and National Risk Index.