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Elkhart County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 18th highest paid in Indiana
Claims
378
Total paid
$3.8M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$3.6M / $235K
Paid by decade
1970s$34K · 17 claims
1980s$399K · 125 claims
1990s$266K · 42 claims
2000s$475K · 63 claims
2010s$2.6M · 125 claims
2020s$88K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $2.5M | 112 claims |
| 2008 | $311K | 36 claims |
| 1982 | $163K | 55 claims |
| 1996 | $158K | 14 claims |
| 1985 | $105K | 40 claims |
Full disaster history for Elkhart 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.