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Chowan County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19822024 · 46th highest paid in North Carolina

Claims
282
Total paid
$5.9M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$5.1M / $791K

Paid by decade

1980s$3K · 4 claims
1990s$97K · 29 claims
2000s$4.7M · 154 claims
2010s$1.1M · 86 claims
2020s$74K · 9 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2003$4.6M146 claims
2011$595K57 claims
2016$445K23 claims
1999$84K21 claims
2006$59K2 claims

Full disaster history for Chowan County

Most-paid counties in North Carolina

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.