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Nelson County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2024 · 99th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
31
Total paid
$238K
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$190K / $48K
Paid by decade
1970s$7K · 2 claims
1980s$18K · 4 claims
1990s$102K · 12 claims
2000s$24K · 7 claims
2010s$81K · 4 claims
2020s$5K · 2 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $81K | 3 claims |
| 1996 | $78K | 10 claims |
| 1994 | $23K | 1 claims |
| 1985 | $18K | 3 claims |
| 2005 | $17K | 2 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.