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Berkeley County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 10th highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
619
Total paid
$8.8M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$7.6M / $1.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$5K · 6 claims
1980s$377K · 87 claims
1990s$67K · 38 claims
2000s$299K · 43 claims
2010s$6.0M · 360 claims
2020s$2.0M · 85 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $2.8M | 110 claims |
| 2015 | $2.5M | 179 claims |
| 2024 | $1.5M | 40 claims |
| 2017 | $550K | 41 claims |
| 1989 | $334K | 69 claims |
Full disaster history for Berkeley 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.