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Butler County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 11th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
316
Total paid
$7.1M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$6.6M / $490K
Paid by decade
1970s$831 · 1 claims
1990s$281K · 71 claims
2000s$4.3M · 157 claims
2010s$2.5M · 84 claims
2020s$10K · 3 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $4.3M | 148 claims |
| 2016 | $2.2M | 67 claims |
| 2013 | $226K | 7 claims |
| 1999 | $125K | 36 claims |
| 1993 | $81K | 15 claims |
Full disaster history for Butler 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.