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Kern County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 41th highest paid in California
Claims
280
Total paid
$1.5M
Average / claim
$5K
Building / contents
$1.4M / $119K
Paid by decade
1970s$3K · 2 claims
1980s$281K · 61 claims
1990s$482K · 102 claims
2000s$165K · 28 claims
2010s$304K · 48 claims
2020s$281K · 39 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1998 | $392K | 76 claims |
| 2023 | $152K | 22 claims |
| 2005 | $147K | 12 claims |
| 1984 | $137K | 28 claims |
| 2017 | $136K | 14 claims |
Full disaster history for Kern 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.