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Buchanan County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2021 · 23th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
375
Total paid
$3.1M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$2.9M / $289K
Paid by decade
1970s$12K · 20 claims
1990s$2.0M · 194 claims
2000s$656K · 93 claims
2010s$459K · 67 claims
2020s$3K · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1999 | $1.8M | 136 claims |
| 2008 | $345K | 51 claims |
| 2004 | $311K | 41 claims |
| 2016 | $180K | 18 claims |
| 1990 | $145K | 23 claims |
Full disaster history for Buchanan 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.