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Fairfax County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 13th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
1,487
Total paid
$16.4M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$15.1M / $1.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$47K · 54 claims
1980s$351K · 68 claims
1990s$319K · 56 claims
2000s$8.0M · 446 claims
2010s$6.8M · 740 claims
2020s$899K · 123 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2003 | $4.6M | 178 claims |
| 2011 | $3.2M | 333 claims |
| 2019 | $3.0M | 100 claims |
| 2006 | $2.7M | 132 claims |
| 2008 | $448K | 70 claims |
Full disaster history for Fairfax 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.