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Lee County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in Florida
Claims
48,493
Total paid
$4.0B
Average / claim
$82K
Building / contents
$3.6B / $400.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$38K · 59 claims
1980s$3.9M · 1,553 claims
1990s$3.9M · 884 claims
2000s$66.0M · 6,520 claims
2010s$67.6M · 2,877 claims
2020s$3.8B · 36,600 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $3.4B | 28,889 claims |
| 2024 | $419.3M | 7,322 claims |
| 2017 | $66.0M | 2,560 claims |
| 2004 | $45.6M | 4,280 claims |
| 2001 | $17.5M | 1,609 claims |
Full disaster history for Lee 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.