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Brown County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2022 · 7th highest paid in South Dakota
Claims
484
Total paid
$3.3M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$3.1M / $209K
Paid by decade
1970s$286K · 135 claims
1980s$45K · 42 claims
1990s$456K · 88 claims
2000s$2.0M · 183 claims
2010s$445K · 34 claims
2020s$2K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2007 | $1.9M | 169 claims |
| 1997 | $441K | 81 claims |
| 2011 | $266K | 17 claims |
| 1978 | $261K | 104 claims |
| 2010 | $178K | 14 claims |
Full disaster history for Brown 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.