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Jefferson County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 43th highest paid in New York
Claims
250
Total paid
$2.4M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$2.3M / $115K
Paid by decade
1970s$28K · 24 claims
1980s$24K · 21 claims
1990s$575K · 78 claims
2000s$20K · 15 claims
2010s$1.6M · 104 claims
2020s$110K · 8 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $752K | 45 claims |
| 2019 | $702K | 34 claims |
| 1998 | $427K | 34 claims |
| 1993 | $87K | 24 claims |
| 2014 | $79K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Jefferson 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.