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Lafourche Parish Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 18th highest paid in Louisiana
Claims
6,200
Total paid
$102.1M
Average / claim
$16K
Building / contents
$82.6M / $19.5M
Paid by decade
1970s$141K · 67 claims
1980s$14.2M · 1,403 claims
1990s$5.4M · 704 claims
2000s$40.5M · 2,764 claims
2010s$3.5M · 312 claims
2020s$38.4M · 950 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2021 | $26.8M | 628 claims |
| 1985 | $13.6M | 1,164 claims |
| 2008 | $11.8M | 860 claims |
| 2005 | $10.6M | 712 claims |
| 2001 | $10.4M | 526 claims |
Full disaster history for Lafourche Parish →
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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.