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Essex County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2023 · 28th highest paid in New York
Claims
369
Total paid
$6.3M
Average / claim
$17K
Building / contents
$5.5M / $820K
Paid by decade
1970s$88K · 62 claims
1980s$53K · 41 claims
1990s$988K · 115 claims
2000s$176K · 13 claims
2010s$4.7M · 129 claims
2020s$295K · 9 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $4.2M | 108 claims |
| 1996 | $721K | 67 claims |
| 2019 | $447K | 11 claims |
| 2022 | $225K | 5 claims |
| 1998 | $120K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Essex 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.