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Georgetown County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792025 · 3rd highest paid in South Carolina

Claims
4,748
Total paid
$114.4M
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$98.7M / $15.7M

Paid by decade

1970s$40K · 37 claims
1980s$59.1M · 2,178 claims
1990s$1.1M · 593 claims
2000s$770K · 102 claims
2010s$28.6M · 1,175 claims
2020s$24.8M · 663 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1989$57.3M1,746 claims
2022$19.5M503 claims
2016$14.6M651 claims
2015$11.1M334 claims
2023$3.0M67 claims

Full disaster history for Georgetown County

Most-paid counties in South Carolina

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.