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Imperial County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2023 · 48th highest paid in California
Claims
103
Total paid
$560K
Average / claim
$5K
Building / contents
$483K / $78K
Paid by decade
1970s$135K · 6 claims
1980s$362K · 91 claims
1990s$0 · 1 claims
2000s$28K · 3 claims
2020s$34K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1983 | $165K | 25 claims |
| 1978 | $114K | 2 claims |
| 1984 | $102K | 22 claims |
| 1986 | $46K | 8 claims |
| 2023 | $34K | 1 claims |
Full disaster history for Imperial 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.