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Merced County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1980–2026 · 16th highest paid in California
Claims
499
Total paid
$14.5M
Average / claim
$29K
Building / contents
$13.9M / $646K
Paid by decade
1980s$18K · 7 claims
1990s$1.8M · 116 claims
2000s$2.5M · 126 claims
2010s$249K · 30 claims
2020s$10.0M · 220 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2023 | $10.0M | 203 claims |
| 2006 | $2.4M | 102 claims |
| 1998 | $1.7M | 94 claims |
| 2018 | $129K | 8 claims |
| 2017 | $106K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Merced 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.