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Minnehaha County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 1st highest paid in South Dakota
Claims
425
Total paid
$8.8M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$7.3M / $1.5M
Paid by decade
1970s$1K · 5 claims
1980s$219K · 36 claims
1990s$507K · 77 claims
2000s$277K · 16 claims
2010s$6.9M · 267 claims
2020s$908K · 24 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2019 | $2.9M | 93 claims |
| 2015 | $2.1M | 33 claims |
| 2011 | $1.1M | 24 claims |
| 2024 | $908K | 22 claims |
| 2010 | $610K | 94 claims |
Full disaster history for Minnehaha 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.