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Cerro Gordo County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2018 · 22th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
216
Total paid
$3.2M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$2.8M / $357K
Paid by decade
1970s$126K · 19 claims
1980s$97K · 29 claims
1990s$69K · 36 claims
2000s$2.8M · 117 claims
2010s$78K · 15 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $2.6M | 89 claims |
| 2004 | $195K | 26 claims |
| 1978 | $102K | 4 claims |
| 1984 | $65K | 13 claims |
| 1999 | $62K | 24 claims |
Full disaster history for Cerro Gordo 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.