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Dorchester County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 7th highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
779
Total paid
$16.8M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$14.3M / $2.5M
Paid by decade
1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$161K · 52 claims
1990s$221K · 41 claims
2000s$57K · 12 claims
2010s$12.7M · 557 claims
2020s$3.6M · 116 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2015 | $8.7M | 387 claims |
| 2016 | $3.0M | 103 claims |
| 2024 | $2.9M | 70 claims |
| 2017 | $779K | 21 claims |
| 2020 | $355K | 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.