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Hays County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792024 · 16th highest paid in Texas

Claims
1,489
Total paid
$71.4M
Average / claim
$48K
Building / contents
$58.3M / $13.1M

Paid by decade

1970s$67K · 21 claims
1980s$1.2M · 156 claims
1990s$4.0M · 289 claims
2000s$1.5M · 100 claims
2010s$64.5M · 913 claims
2020s$131K · 10 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2015$58.8M731 claims
1998$3.6M254 claims
2013$3.0M85 claims
2019$1.6M39 claims
2001$1.1M59 claims

Full disaster history for Hays 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.