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Harlan County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 38th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
443
Total paid
$2.3M
Average / claim
$5K
Building / contents
$1.8M / $576K
Paid by decade
1970s$25K · 21 claims
1980s$331K · 153 claims
1990s$307K · 77 claims
2000s$1.3M · 147 claims
2010s$203K · 24 claims
2020s$207K · 21 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2002 | $1.2M | 116 claims |
| 1984 | $324K | 141 claims |
| 2020 | $160K | 11 claims |
| 1991 | $140K | 42 claims |
| 1994 | $116K | 29 claims |
Full disaster history for Harlan 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.