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Chippewa County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782022 · 16th highest paid in Minnesota

Claims
172
Total paid
$2.5M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$2.2M / $323K

Paid by decade

1970s$4K · 4 claims
1980s$0 · 2 claims
1990s$1.9M · 86 claims
2000s$410K · 58 claims
2010s$244K · 21 claims
2020s$0 · 1 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1997$1.9M79 claims
2001$404K55 claims
2019$136K4 claims
2010$77K9 claims
2011$31K8 claims

Full disaster history for Chippewa County

Most-paid counties in Minnesota

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.