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Lackawanna County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 21th highest paid in Pennsylvania
Claims
1,368
Total paid
$20.5M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$14.7M / $5.8M
Paid by decade
1970s$43K · 31 claims
1980s$961K · 247 claims
1990s$6.2M · 419 claims
2000s$11.5M · 532 claims
2010s$636K · 68 claims
2020s$1.2M · 71 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $6.1M | 391 claims |
| 2006 | $4.4M | 142 claims |
| 2004 | $4.4M | 218 claims |
| 2003 | $2.3M | 119 claims |
| 2023 | $981K | 53 claims |
Full disaster history for Lackawanna 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.