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New Hanover County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 3rd highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
11,182
Total paid
$187.3M
Average / claim
$17K
Building / contents
$161.6M / $25.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$14K · 21 claims
1980s$1.2M · 514 claims
1990s$127.7M · 7,727 claims
2000s$2.7M · 376 claims
2010s$38.4M · 1,993 claims
2020s$17.3M · 551 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $86.5M | 3,783 claims |
| 2018 | $34.3M | 1,635 claims |
| 1999 | $30.8M | 2,394 claims |
| 2024 | $15.2M | 426 claims |
| 1998 | $9.7M | 1,401 claims |
Full disaster history for New Hanover 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.