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Lauderdale County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 17th highest paid in Alabama

Claims
141
Total paid
$1.4M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$1.1M / $290K

Paid by decade

1970s$48K · 2 claims
1980s$2K · 4 claims
1990s$209K · 45 claims
2000s$637K · 61 claims
2010s$357K · 22 claims
2020s$148K · 7 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2003$347K27 claims
2002$187K21 claims
2019$175K9 claims
2010$107K8 claims
1998$86K16 claims

Full disaster history for Lauderdale County

Most-paid counties in Alabama

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.