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Mercer County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 18th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
437
Total paid
$5.2M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$4.0M / $1.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$49K · 30 claims
1980s$101K · 27 claims
1990s$1.5M · 98 claims
2000s$1.6M · 219 claims
2010s$491K · 35 claims
2020s$1.5M · 28 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2025 | $1.4M | 19 claims |
| 1995 | $1.0M | 39 claims |
| 2001 | $705K | 82 claims |
| 2003 | $492K | 55 claims |
| 2010 | $484K | 26 claims |
Full disaster history for Mercer 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.