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East Baton Rouge Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782026 · 5th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
22,575
Total paid
$1.3B
Average / claim
$58K
Building / contents
$1.1B / $169.6M

Paid by decade

1970s$2.7M · 505 claims
1980s$29.6M · 2,600 claims
1990s$31.3M · 2,956 claims
2000s$42.2M · 2,434 claims
2010s$1.1B · 12,330 claims
2020s$117.0M · 1,750 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2016$1.1B11,647 claims
2021$110.5M1,434 claims
1983$24.4M1,457 claims
2001$24.3M1,105 claims
1993$10.6M738 claims

Full disaster history for East Baton Rouge Parish

Most-paid counties in Louisiana

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.