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Erie County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2023 · 13th highest paid in Ohio
Claims
1,103
Total paid
$8.3M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$6.4M / $1.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$103K · 85 claims
1980s$3.9M · 561 claims
1990s$1.4M · 204 claims
2000s$993K · 87 claims
2010s$1.2M · 116 claims
2020s$682K · 50 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $2.6M | 178 claims |
| 2006 | $891K | 63 claims |
| 1982 | $824K | 157 claims |
| 1998 | $697K | 85 claims |
| 2018 | $378K | 19 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.