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McDowell County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 10th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
1,050
Total paid
$9.7M
Average / claim
$9K
Building / contents
$7.5M / $2.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$216K · 140 claims
1980s$496K · 210 claims
1990s$154K · 39 claims
2000s$5.9M · 527 claims
2010s$364K · 66 claims
2020s$2.6M · 68 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2002 | $3.8M | 319 claims |
| 2025 | $2.5M | 60 claims |
| 2001 | $1.6M | 125 claims |
| 1984 | $420K | 157 claims |
| 2010 | $347K | 54 claims |
Full disaster history for McDowell 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.