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Jefferson County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 43th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
143
Total paid
$1.8M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$1.5M / $296K
Paid by decade
1970s$6K · 4 claims
1980s$359K · 32 claims
1990s$1.2M · 82 claims
2000s$12K · 3 claims
2010s$111K · 20 claims
2020s$22K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $1.2M | 76 claims |
| 1985 | $314K | 17 claims |
| 2018 | $76K | 13 claims |
| 1987 | $26K | 5 claims |
| 2025 | $22K | 2 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.