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Black Hawk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2020 · 5th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
1,472
Total paid
$25.7M
Average / claim
$17K
Building / contents
$23.8M / $2.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$109K · 90 claims
1980s$59K · 46 claims
1990s$3.2M · 531 claims
2000s$16.5M · 496 claims
2010s$5.8M · 300 claims
2020s$55K · 9 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $16.0M | 416 claims |
| 2016 | $4.8M | 181 claims |
| 1999 | $2.0M | 273 claims |
| 1993 | $1.1M | 200 claims |
| 2013 | $357K | 31 claims |
Full disaster history for Black Hawk County →
Most-paid counties in Iowa
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.