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Lake County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in Indiana
Claims
2,996
Total paid
$48.8M
Average / claim
$16K
Building / contents
$45.8M / $3.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$98K · 43 claims
1980s$1.2M · 578 claims
1990s$4.6M · 375 claims
2000s$41.2M · 1,810 claims
2010s$1.5M · 143 claims
2020s$188K · 47 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2008 | $32.5M | 920 claims |
| 2006 | $6.9M | 692 claims |
| 1990 | $4.4M | 231 claims |
| 2007 | $1.8M | 119 claims |
| 2018 | $692K | 35 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.