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New Castle County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in Delaware
Claims
1,574
Total paid
$49.8M
Average / claim
$32K
Building / contents
$33.6M / $16.1M
Paid by decade
1970s$182K · 46 claims
1980s$1.3M · 162 claims
1990s$8.0M · 290 claims
2000s$23.7M · 495 claims
2010s$6.8M · 381 claims
2020s$9.8M · 200 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2003 | $16.3M | 263 claims |
| 2021 | $8.0M | 106 claims |
| 1999 | $7.2M | 217 claims |
| 2004 | $6.3M | 135 claims |
| 2011 | $3.9M | 169 claims |
Full disaster history for New Castle 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.