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Des Moines County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 10th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
352
Total paid
$8.7M
Average / claim
$25K
Building / contents
$7.8M / $881K
Paid by decade
1970s$55K · 9 claims
1980s$37K · 18 claims
1990s$105K · 7 claims
2000s$4.4M · 116 claims
2010s$3.7M · 173 claims
2020s$385K · 29 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $4.2M | 90 claims |
| 2019 | $1.5M | 35 claims |
| 2014 | $540K | 28 claims |
| 2010 | $516K | 28 claims |
| 2015 | $428K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Des Moines 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.