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Carteret County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 5th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
8,997
Total paid
$123.1M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$106.9M / $16.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$0 · 5 claims
1980s$465K · 217 claims
1990s$20.7M · 3,261 claims
2000s$23.5M · 1,803 claims
2010s$76.9M · 3,596 claims
2020s$1.5M · 115 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $64.4M | 2,521 claims |
| 2003 | $14.6M | 884 claims |
| 1999 | $10.6M | 1,265 claims |
| 2011 | $9.6M | 792 claims |
| 2005 | $8.6M | 816 claims |
Full disaster history for Carteret 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.