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Fayette County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 36th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
295
Total paid
$3.1M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$2.7M / $386K
Paid by decade
1970s$21K · 14 claims
1980s$77K · 30 claims
1990s$65K · 21 claims
2000s$983K · 123 claims
2010s$1.3M · 88 claims
2020s$634K · 19 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2001 | $823K | 80 claims |
| 2016 | $728K | 21 claims |
| 2022 | $573K | 14 claims |
| 2010 | $554K | 54 claims |
| 2003 | $90K | 28 claims |
Full disaster history for Fayette 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.