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Cherokee County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19852026 · 18th highest paid in Kansas

Claims
86
Total paid
$1.7M
Average / claim
$19K
Building / contents
$1.4M / $216K

Paid by decade

1980s$14K · 6 claims
1990s$405K · 36 claims
2000s$239K · 18 claims
2010s$878K · 24 claims
2020s$123K · 2 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2015$811K20 claims
1993$292K17 claims
2007$206K13 claims
2026$120K1 claims
1994$71K13 claims

Full disaster history for Cherokee County

Most-paid counties in Kansas

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.