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Knott County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 17th highest paid in Kentucky

Claims
204
Total paid
$6.6M
Average / claim
$32K
Building / contents
$5.2M / $1.4M

Paid by decade

1970s$6K · 5 claims
1980s$377K · 45 claims
1990s$58K · 11 claims
2000s$289K · 35 claims
2010s$60K · 6 claims
2020s$5.8M · 102 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2022$4.9M65 claims
2025$876K35 claims
1984$315K23 claims
2003$212K24 claims
2012$51K2 claims

Full disaster history for Knott County

Most-paid counties in Kentucky

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.