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Matagorda County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 26th highest paid in Texas
Claims
2,137
Total paid
$24.4M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$19.1M / $5.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$731K · 215 claims
1980s$1.4M · 426 claims
1990s$2.9M · 350 claims
2000s$5.3M · 506 claims
2010s$11.3M · 419 claims
2020s$2.8M · 221 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $8.9M | 304 claims |
| 2003 | $2.4M | 248 claims |
| 1998 | $2.1M | 196 claims |
| 2019 | $1.9M | 70 claims |
| 2024 | $1.6M | 123 claims |
Full disaster history for Matagorda 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.