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Letcher County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1982–2025 · 13th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
187
Total paid
$7.7M
Average / claim
$41K
Building / contents
$7.1M / $606K
Paid by decade
1980s$322K · 41 claims
1990s$6K · 5 claims
2000s$1K · 6 claims
2010s$1K · 2 claims
2020s$7.4M · 133 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $6.7M | 91 claims |
| 2025 | $624K | 37 claims |
| 1982 | $150K | 13 claims |
| 1984 | $89K | 19 claims |
| 1989 | $83K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Letcher 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.