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District of Columbia Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in District of Columbia
Claims
495
Total paid
$5.5M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$4.8M / $696K
Paid by decade
1970s$120K · 20 claims
1980s$115K · 30 claims
1990s$506K · 26 claims
2000s$926K · 73 claims
2010s$2.4M · 227 claims
2020s$1.5M · 119 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $1.6M | 27 claims |
| 2023 | $724K | 12 claims |
| 2020 | $572K | 63 claims |
| 2006 | $539K | 12 claims |
| 1996 | $482K | 19 claims |
Full disaster history for District of Columbia →
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.