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Los Angeles County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in California
Claims
9,104
Total paid
$72.4M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$62.4M / $9.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$2.1M · 561 claims
1980s$17.6M · 3,087 claims
1990s$21.9M · 3,100 claims
2000s$7.6M · 1,025 claims
2010s$12.7M · 852 claims
2020s$10.5M · 479 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1998 | $9.2M | 1,399 claims |
| 1983 | $9.1M | 1,115 claims |
| 1995 | $6.4M | 643 claims |
| 2024 | $5.3M | 158 claims |
| 1980 | $5.1M | 1,276 claims |
Full disaster history for Los Angeles 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.