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Knox County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 10th highest paid in Tennessee
Claims
598
Total paid
$7.9M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$6.4M / $1.5M
Paid by decade
1970s$104K · 14 claims
1980s$750K · 111 claims
1990s$1.2M · 126 claims
2000s$1.1M · 110 claims
2010s$3.6M · 184 claims
2020s$1.1M · 53 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $2.2M | 97 claims |
| 2019 | $1.2M | 54 claims |
| 1998 | $902K | 79 claims |
| 2020 | $664K | 27 claims |
| 1982 | $584K | 50 claims |
Full disaster history for Knox 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.