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Bolivar County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 8th highest paid in Mississippi

Claims
994
Total paid
$19.7M
Average / claim
$20K
Building / contents
$17.3M / $2.4M

Paid by decade

1970s$431K · 75 claims
1980s$731K · 149 claims
1990s$2.3M · 313 claims
2000s$3.3M · 163 claims
2010s$11.2M · 264 claims
2020s$1.7M · 30 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2011$9.9M201 claims
2008$2.7M111 claims
2021$1.6M26 claims
2016$1.0M37 claims
1997$984K83 claims

Full disaster history for Bolivar County

Most-paid counties in Mississippi

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.