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Lake County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 17th highest paid in California
Claims
1,432
Total paid
$14.1M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$13.1M / $968K
Paid by decade
1970s$24K · 5 claims
1980s$2.8M · 329 claims
1990s$7.8M · 844 claims
2000s$581K · 44 claims
2010s$2.8M · 192 claims
2020s$56K · 18 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1998 | $4.7M | 477 claims |
| 1995 | $2.7M | 297 claims |
| 2017 | $1.8M | 115 claims |
| 1986 | $1.8M | 180 claims |
| 1983 | $1.0M | 129 claims |
Full disaster history for Lake 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.