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Erie County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 20th highest paid in New York
Claims
2,483
Total paid
$12.8M
Average / claim
$5K
Building / contents
$10.2M / $2.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$2.3M · 824 claims
1980s$3.6M · 911 claims
1990s$1.4M · 247 claims
2000s$1.8M · 269 claims
2010s$1.7M · 159 claims
2020s$2.0M · 73 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $2.8M | 413 claims |
| 1979 | $2.2M | 723 claims |
| 2020 | $804K | 20 claims |
| 1998 | $584K | 58 claims |
| 1999 | $524K | 92 claims |
Full disaster history for Erie 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.