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DeKalb County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 5th highest paid in Georgia
Claims
1,998
Total paid
$29.2M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$25.8M / $3.4M
Paid by decade
1970s$306K · 70 claims
1980s$807K · 231 claims
1990s$2.2M · 253 claims
2000s$18.9M · 922 claims
2010s$2.7M · 306 claims
2020s$4.3M · 216 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2009 | $12.1M | 468 claims |
| 2004 | $5.0M | 244 claims |
| 2024 | $2.7M | 102 claims |
| 2020 | $1.4M | 73 claims |
| 1991 | $1.4M | 83 claims |
Full disaster history for DeKalb 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.