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Lea County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 8th highest paid in New Mexico
Claims
208
Total paid
$931K
Average / claim
$4K
Building / contents
$859K / $73K
Paid by decade
1970s$344 · 3 claims
1980s$97K · 58 claims
1990s$639K · 104 claims
2000s$33K · 14 claims
2010s$138K · 23 claims
2020s$24K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1992 | $548K | 75 claims |
| 2016 | $108K | 13 claims |
| 1995 | $83K | 17 claims |
| 1988 | $65K | 21 claims |
| 2015 | $17K | 2 claims |
Full disaster history for Lea 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.