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Butte County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1983–2025 · 24th highest paid in California
Claims
335
Total paid
$7.2M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$6.1M / $1.1M
Paid by decade
1980s$244K · 15 claims
1990s$3.3M · 192 claims
2000s$321K · 24 claims
2010s$2.2M · 86 claims
2020s$1.2M · 18 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1997 | $1.3M | 53 claims |
| 2019 | $1.0M | 32 claims |
| 1998 | $826K | 59 claims |
| 2025 | $787K | 11 claims |
| 1995 | $635K | 47 claims |
Full disaster history for Butte 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.