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Hancock County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792023 · 22th highest paid in Illinois

Claims
288
Total paid
$5.7M
Average / claim
$20K
Building / contents
$4.6M / $1.0M

Paid by decade

1970s$6K · 2 claims
1980s$18K · 7 claims
1990s$2.2M · 117 claims
2000s$3.0M · 111 claims
2010s$468K · 49 claims
2020s$13K · 2 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2008$2.8M81 claims
1993$2.1M108 claims
2019$312K18 claims
2001$134K26 claims
2013$75K9 claims

Full disaster history for Hancock County

Most-paid counties in Illinois

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.