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Hancock County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 28th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
365
Total paid
$3.9M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$3.3M / $680K
Paid by decade
1970s$156K · 44 claims
1980s$270K · 83 claims
1990s$454K · 44 claims
2000s$2.9M · 170 claims
2010s$74K · 12 claims
2020s$76K · 12 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2004 | $2.8M | 146 claims |
| 1996 | $374K | 30 claims |
| 1980 | $263K | 77 claims |
| 1979 | $155K | 41 claims |
| 2005 | $88K | 24 claims |
Full disaster history for Hancock 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.