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Cowlitz County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 7th highest paid in Washington
Claims
684
Total paid
$14.9M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$12.1M / $2.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$4.5M · 264 claims
1990s$4.3M · 216 claims
2000s$3.0M · 123 claims
2010s$2.0M · 57 claims
2020s$1.1M · 23 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1980 | $3.5M | 168 claims |
| 1996 | $3.4M | 162 claims |
| 2009 | $2.4M | 78 claims |
| 2015 | $1.6M | 30 claims |
| 1986 | $792K | 56 claims |
Full disaster history for Cowlitz 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.