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Hamlin County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2020 · 5th highest paid in South Dakota
Claims
347
Total paid
$4.4M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$4.1M / $354K
Paid by decade
1970s$6K · 1 claims
1980s$81K · 16 claims
1990s$572K · 67 claims
2000s$81K · 12 claims
2010s$3.7M · 250 claims
2020s$0 · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $1.8M | 107 claims |
| 2010 | $958K | 73 claims |
| 2019 | $911K | 68 claims |
| 1997 | $569K | 60 claims |
| 1986 | $81K | 16 claims |
Full disaster history for Hamlin 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.