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Herkimer County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 29th highest paid in New York
Claims
422
Total paid
$6.1M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$5.5M / $681K
Paid by decade
1970s$26K · 13 claims
1980s$100K · 45 claims
1990s$289K · 23 claims
2000s$628K · 65 claims
2010s$4.9M · 264 claims
2020s$155K · 12 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2019 | $2.2M | 35 claims |
| 2013 | $2.0M | 158 claims |
| 2006 | $583K | 54 claims |
| 2011 | $491K | 56 claims |
| 1996 | $202K | 4 claims |
Full disaster history for Herkimer 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.