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Columbus County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 24th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
712
Total paid
$24.8M
Average / claim
$35K
Building / contents
$20.2M / $4.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$650 · 2 claims
1980s$181K · 24 claims
1990s$2.1M · 164 claims
2000s$92K · 9 claims
2010s$19.1M · 426 claims
2020s$3.3M · 87 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $14.7M | 307 claims |
| 2016 | $4.3M | 107 claims |
| 1999 | $1.7M | 117 claims |
| 2023 | $1.4M | 34 claims |
| 2025 | $1.2M | 26 claims |
Full disaster history for Columbus 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.