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Middlesex County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782026 · 4th highest paid in Massachusetts

Claims
3,752
Total paid
$36.4M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$29.5M / $6.9M

Paid by decade

1970s$3.2M · 554 claims
1980s$1.7M · 582 claims
1990s$5.1M · 601 claims
2000s$12.3M · 1,031 claims
2010s$12.1M · 847 claims
2020s$1.9M · 137 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2010$10.3M658 claims
2006$7.7M332 claims
1996$3.0M284 claims
2001$2.2M309 claims
1978$1.7M200 claims

Full disaster history for Middlesex County

Most-paid counties in Massachusetts

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.