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Columbia County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 39th highest paid in New York
Claims
242
Total paid
$3.0M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$2.1M / $889K
Paid by decade
1970s$37K · 7 claims
1980s$241K · 39 claims
1990s$584K · 40 claims
2000s$935K · 80 claims
2010s$1.2M · 65 claims
2020s$25K · 11 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $839K | 54 claims |
| 2009 | $456K | 22 claims |
| 1996 | $291K | 17 claims |
| 2012 | $253K | 4 claims |
| 1990 | $148K | 7 claims |
Full disaster history for Columbia 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.