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Cameron Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 13th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
3,470
Total paid
$203.1M
Average / claim
$59K
Building / contents
$159.1M / $43.9M

Paid by decade

1970s$28K · 22 claims
1980s$1.3M · 204 claims
1990s$1.4M · 123 claims
2000s$161.3M · 2,479 claims
2010s$441K · 21 claims
2020s$38.6M · 621 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2005$100.9M1,348 claims
2008$60.2M1,108 claims
2020$38.0M617 claims
1989$746K68 claims
1998$684K57 claims

Full disaster history for Cameron Parish

Most-paid counties in Louisiana

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.