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Nassau County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in New York
Claims
51,520
Total paid
$2.3B
Average / claim
$44K
Building / contents
$2.0B / $290.4M
Paid by decade
1970s$2.2M · 1,017 claims
1980s$8.3M · 3,242 claims
1990s$57.5M · 6,404 claims
2000s$18.8M · 2,925 claims
2010s$2.1B · 36,046 claims
2020s$38.4M · 1,886 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $2.0B | 27,136 claims |
| 2011 | $134.1M | 7,257 claims |
| 1992 | $37.8M | 3,671 claims |
| 2022 | $16.3M | 603 claims |
| 2005 | $13.7M | 2,115 claims |
Full disaster history for Nassau 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.