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Cedar County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19822018 · 36th highest paid in Iowa

Claims
38
Total paid
$917K
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$784K / $133K

Paid by decade

1980s$9K · 7 claims
1990s$29K · 7 claims
2000s$431K · 4 claims
2010s$448K · 20 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2008$431K4 claims
2014$269K10 claims
2018$161K6 claims
1993$27K4 claims
2016$15K2 claims

Full disaster history for Cedar County

Most-paid counties in Iowa

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.