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Essex County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2023 · 27th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
241
Total paid
$5.3M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$4.3M / $951K
Paid by decade
1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$93K · 17 claims
1990s$251K · 36 claims
2000s$4.9M · 177 claims
2010s$14K · 8 claims
2020s$4K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2003 | $3.8M | 104 claims |
| 2006 | $997K | 63 claims |
| 1996 | $195K | 25 claims |
| 1985 | $93K | 17 claims |
| 2009 | $65K | 5 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.