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Nelson County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 32th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
122
Total paid
$3.4M
Average / claim
$28K
Building / contents
$2.9M / $497K
Paid by decade
1970s$7K · 6 claims
1980s$226K · 23 claims
1990s$734K · 28 claims
2010s$1.0M · 34 claims
2020s$1.5M · 31 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2025 | $1.1M | 23 claims |
| 2010 | $1.0M | 31 claims |
| 1997 | $731K | 27 claims |
| 2021 | $244K | 4 claims |
| 1989 | $201K | 13 claims |
Full disaster history for Nelson 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.