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Chatham County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in Georgia
Claims
5,464
Total paid
$82.0M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$65.8M / $16.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$118K · 69 claims
1980s$311K · 164 claims
1990s$33.1M · 2,724 claims
2000s$1.7M · 299 claims
2010s$42.9M · 1,921 claims
2020s$3.9M · 287 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $28.4M | 984 claims |
| 1999 | $17.1M | 1,163 claims |
| 2016 | $13.7M | 794 claims |
| 1994 | $8.7M | 849 claims |
| 1996 | $5.9M | 423 claims |
Full disaster history for Chatham 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.