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Cheshire County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782023 · 3rd highest paid in New Hampshire

Claims
247
Total paid
$6.7M
Average / claim
$27K
Building / contents
$4.5M / $2.2M

Paid by decade

1970s$10K · 7 claims
1980s$270K · 81 claims
1990s$39K · 5 claims
2000s$4.1M · 84 claims
2010s$1.9M · 54 claims
2020s$415K · 16 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2005$4.1M80 claims
2012$1.7M35 claims
2021$293K12 claims
1984$227K61 claims
2023$122K4 claims

Full disaster history for Cheshire County

Most-paid counties in New Hampshire

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.