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Galveston County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in Texas
Claims
60,619
Total paid
$2.4B
Average / claim
$40K
Building / contents
$1.9B / $550.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$80.7M · 5,468 claims
1980s$88.7M · 13,468 claims
1990s$31.1M · 3,928 claims
2000s$1.4B · 26,901 claims
2010s$843.3M · 9,620 claims
2020s$19.7M · 1,234 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $1.3B | 22,606 claims |
| 2017 | $834.8M | 8,853 claims |
| 1979 | $80.7M | 5,461 claims |
| 1983 | $46.7M | 7,483 claims |
| 2001 | $43.8M | 1,914 claims |
Full disaster history for Galveston 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.