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Chautauqua County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2022 · 22th highest paid in New York
Claims
1,803
Total paid
$9.8M
Average / claim
$5K
Building / contents
$7.0M / $2.8M
Paid by decade
1970s$1.1M · 513 claims
1980s$3.2M · 863 claims
1990s$246K · 48 claims
2000s$2.0M · 162 claims
2010s$2.0M · 189 claims
2020s$1.3M · 28 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $1.3M | 263 claims |
| 1986 | $1.3M | 227 claims |
| 1979 | $1.0M | 444 claims |
| 2011 | $947K | 124 claims |
| 2003 | $914K | 99 claims |
Full disaster history for Chautauqua 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.