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Defiance County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2018 · 36th highest paid in Ohio
Claims
330
Total paid
$2.4M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$1.9M / $531K
Paid by decade
1970s$55K · 25 claims
1980s$992K · 152 claims
1990s$172K · 39 claims
2000s$953K · 85 claims
2010s$275K · 29 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1982 | $653K | 63 claims |
| 2008 | $572K | 46 claims |
| 1985 | $240K | 62 claims |
| 2005 | $227K | 20 claims |
| 2011 | $161K | 18 claims |
Full disaster history for Defiance 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.