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Chesapeake city Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 7th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
2,634
Total paid
$27.0M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$24.0M / $3.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$16K · 14 claims
1980s$84K · 63 claims
1990s$1.3M · 416 claims
2000s$16.7M · 1,327 claims
2010s$8.5M · 752 claims
2020s$361K · 62 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2009 | $9.2M | 602 claims |
| 2003 | $5.9M | 558 claims |
| 2011 | $4.6M | 363 claims |
| 2016 | $2.4M | 205 claims |
| 2006 | $1.4M | 125 claims |
Full disaster history for Chesapeake city →
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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.