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Dorchester County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 4th highest paid in Maryland
Claims
1,142
Total paid
$20.2M
Average / claim
$18K
Building / contents
$18.5M / $1.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$22K · 9 claims
1980s$49K · 22 claims
1990s$369K · 94 claims
2000s$14.6M · 731 claims
2010s$724K · 87 claims
2020s$4.5M · 199 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2003 | $14.4M | 706 claims |
| 2021 | $3.0M | 120 claims |
| 2024 | $1.2M | 52 claims |
| 1996 | $318K | 71 claims |
| 2019 | $296K | 17 claims |
Full disaster history for Dorchester 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.