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Humboldt County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792026 · 34th highest paid in California

Claims
201
Total paid
$3.1M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$2.9M / $226K

Paid by decade

1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$310K · 29 claims
1990s$1.0M · 104 claims
2000s$887K · 37 claims
2010s$176K · 18 claims
2020s$719K · 12 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2002$534K16 claims
1996$437K26 claims
2024$403K4 claims
1986$304K21 claims
2005$285K8 claims

Full disaster history for Humboldt County

Most-paid counties in California

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.