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Custer County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19912019 · 17th highest paid in South Dakota

Claims
50
Total paid
$646K
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$627K / $19K

Paid by decade

1990s$23K · 12 claims
2000s$530K · 27 claims
2010s$93K · 11 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2007$530K24 claims
2019$84K8 claims
1999$23K9 claims
2010$8K1 claims
2018$8211 claims

Full disaster history for Custer County

Most-paid counties in South Dakota

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.