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Hughes County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19822013 · 16th highest paid in South Dakota

Claims
88
Total paid
$695K
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$659K / $37K

Paid by decade

1980s$823 · 1 claims
1990s$184K · 34 claims
2000s$23K · 6 claims
2010s$488K · 47 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2011$479K45 claims
1999$151K17 claims
1997$33K16 claims
2008$23K6 claims
2013$8K1 claims

Full disaster history for Hughes County

Most-paid counties in South Dakota

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.