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Cherokee County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1980–2025 · 74th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
56
Total paid
$949K
Average / claim
$17K
Building / contents
$722K / $227K
Paid by decade
1980s$50K · 2 claims
1990s$299K · 22 claims
2000s$4K · 2 claims
2010s$151K · 20 claims
2020s$444K · 10 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2025 | $406K | 6 claims |
| 1995 | $226K | 8 claims |
| 2015 | $134K | 14 claims |
| 2020 | $38K | 4 claims |
| 1994 | $31K | 5 claims |
Full disaster history for Cherokee 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.