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Cape May County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 5th highest paid in New Jersey
Claims
28,016
Total paid
$404.8M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$348.7M / $56.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$139K · 186 claims
1980s$21.6M · 5,121 claims
1990s$76.7M · 9,392 claims
2000s$11.4M · 1,182 claims
2010s$293.8M · 12,019 claims
2020s$1.1M · 116 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $267.3M | 10,138 claims |
| 1992 | $41.2M | 4,913 claims |
| 2016 | $22.9M | 1,326 claims |
| 1998 | $18.3M | 1,971 claims |
| 1985 | $10.0M | 1,785 claims |
Full disaster history for Cape May 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.