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Hidalgo County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782026 · 12th highest paid in Texas

Claims
4,404
Total paid
$117.8M
Average / claim
$27K
Building / contents
$94.0M / $23.9M

Paid by decade

1970s$195K · 66 claims
1980s$2.7M · 624 claims
1990s$445K · 84 claims
2000s$5.8M · 566 claims
2010s$58.4M · 1,585 claims
2020s$50.3M · 1,479 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2018$40.0M728 claims
2025$24.3M441 claims
2020$22.9M843 claims
2019$6.8M252 claims
2015$5.1M205 claims

Full disaster history for Hidalgo County

Most-paid counties in Texas

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.