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Cattaraugus County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 33th highest paid in New York

Claims
493
Total paid
$5.1M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$4.4M / $642K

Paid by decade

1970s$81K · 42 claims
1980s$167K · 68 claims
1990s$1.5M · 180 claims
2000s$2.7M · 137 claims
2010s$534K · 61 claims
2020s$25K · 5 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2009$2.2M93 claims
1996$1.2M130 claims
2007$322K9 claims
2010$313K28 claims
1998$284K37 claims

Full disaster history for Cattaraugus County

Most-paid counties in New York

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.