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Kent County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 3rd highest paid in Rhode Island
Claims
1,300
Total paid
$21.5M
Average / claim
$17K
Building / contents
$16.5M / $5.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$169K · 139 claims
1980s$657K · 162 claims
1990s$593K · 147 claims
2000s$1.7M · 173 claims
2010s$15.6M · 582 claims
2020s$2.8M · 97 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2010 | $14.7M | 491 claims |
| 2023 | $1.8M | 37 claims |
| 2024 | $926K | 49 claims |
| 2012 | $744K | 37 claims |
| 2005 | $727K | 88 claims |
Full disaster history for Kent County →
Most-paid counties in Rhode Island
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.