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Cape Girardeau County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 15th highest paid in Missouri
Claims
1,074
Total paid
$11.0M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$7.6M / $3.4M
Paid by decade
1970s$276K · 68 claims
1980s$4.5M · 562 claims
1990s$2.5M · 242 claims
2000s$1.2M · 104 claims
2010s$2.6M · 96 claims
2020s$4K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1986 | $3.2M | 201 claims |
| 1993 | $1.5M | 107 claims |
| 2016 | $1.2M | 16 claims |
| 2015 | $797K | 23 claims |
| 2008 | $774K | 42 claims |
Full disaster history for Cape Girardeau 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.