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Lafayette Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 12th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
6,579
Total paid
$266.3M
Average / claim
$40K
Building / contents
$216.7M / $49.6M

Paid by decade

1970s$410K · 177 claims
1980s$4.4M · 757 claims
1990s$9.9M · 1,058 claims
2000s$10.0M · 755 claims
2010s$215.2M · 3,329 claims
2020s$26.3M · 503 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2016$194.3M2,592 claims
2025$16.3M190 claims
2012$10.1M289 claims
2021$6.6M177 claims
2019$5.3M173 claims

Full disaster history for Lafayette Parish →

Most-paid counties in Louisiana

Orleans Parish$7.2BJefferson Parish$3.5BSt. Bernard Parish$2.2BSt. Tammany Parish$1.8BEast Baton Rouge Parish$1.3BLivingston Parish$829.8MSt. John the Baptist Parish$654.1MPlaquemines Parish$378.4M

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.