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Charleston County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
19,286
Total paid
$312.0M
Average / claim
$16K
Building / contents
$278.4M / $33.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$385K · 326 claims
1980s$182.2M · 10,181 claims
1990s$4.4M · 1,860 claims
2000s$7.3M · 658 claims
2010s$104.9M · 5,529 claims
2020s$12.9M · 732 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1989 | $181.2M | 9,499 claims |
| 2017 | $39.3M | 1,578 claims |
| 2016 | $33.8M | 1,462 claims |
| 2015 | $27.9M | 2,111 claims |
| 2023 | $5.6M | 295 claims |
Full disaster history for Charleston 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.