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Buchanan County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 33th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
359
Total paid
$4.6M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$3.4M / $1.1M
Paid by decade
1970s$392K · 61 claims
1980s$1.1M · 163 claims
1990s$19K · 5 claims
2000s$960K · 69 claims
2010s$51K · 12 claims
2020s$2.1M · 49 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2025 | $1.3M | 23 claims |
| 1984 | $923K | 136 claims |
| 2022 | $613K | 14 claims |
| 2002 | $547K | 22 claims |
| 2003 | $276K | 28 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.