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Jefferson Parish Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in Louisiana
Claims
135,658
Total paid
$3.5B
Average / claim
$26K
Building / contents
$2.7B / $853.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$22.8M · 4,346 claims
1980s$172.5M · 25,007 claims
1990s$336.3M · 22,320 claims
2000s$2.8B · 74,191 claims
2010s$40.9M · 4,521 claims
2020s$156.2M · 5,273 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2005 | $2.7B | 65,911 claims |
| 1995 | $303.2M | 16,109 claims |
| 2021 | $93.3M | 3,566 claims |
| 2024 | $56.2M | 1,193 claims |
| 1980 | $51.3M | 7,806 claims |
Full disaster history for Jefferson Parish →
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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.