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Gilmer County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2018 · 19th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
455
Total paid
$5.2M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$3.2M / $2.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$26K · 25 claims
1980s$1.6M · 103 claims
1990s$749K · 95 claims
2000s$2.8M · 226 claims
2010s$30K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $1.5M | 59 claims |
| 2008 | $1.3M | 68 claims |
| 2000 | $828K | 60 claims |
| 2003 | $536K | 68 claims |
| 1994 | $323K | 34 claims |
Full disaster history for Gilmer 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.