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Lamar County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19802026 · 18th highest paid in Mississippi

Claims
399
Total paid
$5.8M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$5.2M / $593K

Paid by decade

1980s$166K · 29 claims
1990s$1.0M · 118 claims
2000s$2.5M · 165 claims
2010s$1.9M · 69 claims
2020s$126K · 18 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2005$1.1M58 claims
1999$682K67 claims
2014$619K23 claims
2012$549K11 claims
2004$468K20 claims

Full disaster history for Lamar County

Most-paid counties in Mississippi

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.