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Lynchburg city Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782023 · 36th highest paid in Virginia

Claims
151
Total paid
$4.1M
Average / claim
$27K
Building / contents
$2.1M / $2.0M

Paid by decade

1970s$8K · 8 claims
1980s$1.9M · 50 claims
1990s$1.7M · 69 claims
2000s$2K · 3 claims
2010s$377K · 16 claims
2020s$82K · 5 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1985$1.6M7 claims
1996$1.3M35 claims
2018$365K11 claims
1992$306K16 claims
1995$173K12 claims

Full disaster history for Lynchburg city

Most-paid counties in Virginia

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.