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Buena Vista city Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782012 · 37th highest paid in Virginia

Claims
276
Total paid
$4.0M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$2.0M / $2.0M

Paid by decade

1970s$2K · 3 claims
1980s$2.0M · 63 claims
1990s$1.9M · 203 claims
2000s$79K · 6 claims
2010s$5K · 1 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1985$1.9M49 claims
1995$1.1M95 claims
1992$612K55 claims
1996$281K52 claims
2003$79K6 claims

Full disaster history for Buena Vista city

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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.