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Durham County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 34th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
443
Total paid
$10.9M
Average / claim
$25K
Building / contents
$9.6M / $1.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$2K · 2 claims
1980s$33K · 18 claims
1990s$952K · 121 claims
2000s$955K · 68 claims
2010s$2.8M · 146 claims
2020s$6.2M · 88 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2025 | $5.0M | 47 claims |
| 2018 | $1.4M | 58 claims |
| 2024 | $1.0M | 30 claims |
| 2016 | $967K | 41 claims |
| 1996 | $703K | 76 claims |
Full disaster history for Durham 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.