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Forrest County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 11th highest paid in Mississippi
Claims
1,755
Total paid
$12.8M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$10.5M / $2.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$309K · 75 claims
1980s$3.2M · 939 claims
1990s$2.3M · 353 claims
2000s$1.6M · 156 claims
2010s$3.8M · 195 claims
2020s$1.5M · 37 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1983 | $2.4M | 547 claims |
| 2018 | $2.2M | 55 claims |
| 2005 | $978K | 100 claims |
| 2020 | $873K | 8 claims |
| 1999 | $828K | 78 claims |
Full disaster history for Forrest 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.