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Clay County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2021 · 45th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
76
Total paid
$1.6M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$1.5M / $185K
Paid by decade
1970s$3K · 2 claims
1980s$7K · 4 claims
1990s$74K · 15 claims
2000s$20K · 6 claims
2010s$1.5M · 48 claims
2020s$0 · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $1.4M | 40 claims |
| 2015 | $95K | 6 claims |
| 1996 | $36K | 2 claims |
| 1997 | $35K | 9 claims |
| 2018 | $9K | 1 claims |
Full disaster history for Clay 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.