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King County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 2nd highest paid in Washington
Claims
3,382
Total paid
$66.0M
Average / claim
$20K
Building / contents
$57.8M / $8.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$153K · 34 claims
1980s$1.5M · 247 claims
1990s$12.9M · 1,077 claims
2000s$32.9M · 1,313 claims
2010s$3.0M · 302 claims
2020s$15.5M · 409 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2009 | $18.6M | 668 claims |
| 2006 | $11.4M | 447 claims |
| 2025 | $9.9M | 211 claims |
| 1990 | $5.8M | 408 claims |
| 1996 | $3.6M | 298 claims |
Full disaster history for King 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.