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Grand Forks County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2022 · 1st highest paid in North Dakota
Claims
3,114
Total paid
$75.5M
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$66.5M / $9.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$2.1M · 339 claims
1980s$122K · 122 claims
1990s$70.9M · 2,341 claims
2000s$1.7M · 159 claims
2010s$573K · 126 claims
2020s$133K · 27 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1997 | $70.7M | 2,293 claims |
| 1979 | $2.0M | 301 claims |
| 2009 | $958K | 49 claims |
| 2019 | $279K | 71 claims |
| 2001 | $237K | 66 claims |
Full disaster history for Grand Forks County →
Most-paid counties in North Dakota
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.