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Carter County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 11th highest paid in Kentucky

Claims
449
Total paid
$8.7M
Average / claim
$19K
Building / contents
$7.2M / $1.6M

Paid by decade

1970s$64K · 14 claims
1980s$22K · 10 claims
1990s$1.1M · 70 claims
2000s$2.7M · 185 claims
2010s$4.7M · 157 claims
2020s$178K · 13 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2010$3.1M98 claims
2003$1.3M105 claims
2002$1.2M58 claims
1997$1.1M63 claims
2015$704K26 claims

Full disaster history for Carter 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.