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Chaves County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 2nd highest paid in New Mexico
Claims
132
Total paid
$8.4M
Average / claim
$64K
Building / contents
$8.0M / $361K
Paid by decade
1970s$9K · 5 claims
1980s$15K · 6 claims
1990s$3K · 3 claims
2000s$16K · 9 claims
2010s$196K · 19 claims
2020s$8.1M · 90 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $8.0M | 82 claims |
| 2025 | $148K | 5 claims |
| 2013 | $86K | 8 claims |
| 2014 | $85K | 5 claims |
| 2021 | $21K | 3 claims |
Full disaster history for Chaves County →
Most-paid counties in New Mexico
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.