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Breathitt County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 14th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
207
Total paid
$7.6M
Average / claim
$37K
Building / contents
$6.3M / $1.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$11K · 4 claims
1980s$173K · 38 claims
1990s$34K · 11 claims
2000s$1.2M · 30 claims
2010s$9K · 2 claims
2020s$6.2M · 122 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $4.7M | 72 claims |
| 2021 | $1.2M | 26 claims |
| 2009 | $773K | 13 claims |
| 2025 | $363K | 23 claims |
| 2004 | $293K | 5 claims |
Full disaster history for Breathitt 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.