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DeSoto County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 39th highest paid in Florida
Claims
453
Total paid
$17.0M
Average / claim
$37K
Building / contents
$14.4M / $2.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$14K · 5 claims
1980s$201K · 26 claims
1990s$862K · 73 claims
2000s$1.4M · 114 claims
2010s$2.3M · 64 claims
2020s$12.1M · 171 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $10.8M | 150 claims |
| 2017 | $2.3M | 60 claims |
| 2024 | $1.3M | 21 claims |
| 2001 | $772K | 45 claims |
| 2004 | $493K | 50 claims |
Full disaster history for DeSoto 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.