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Lincoln County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 26th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
344
Total paid
$4.3M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$3.1M / $1.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$276K · 69 claims
1980s$9K · 12 claims
1990s$442K · 46 claims
2000s$2.4M · 109 claims
2010s$1.0M · 97 claims
2020s$132K · 11 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2003 | $2.1M | 80 claims |
| 2015 | $599K | 40 claims |
| 2012 | $312K | 32 claims |
| 1997 | $249K | 26 claims |
| 1978 | $205K | 54 claims |
Full disaster history for Lincoln 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.