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Newport County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 4th highest paid in Rhode Island
Claims
805
Total paid
$11.8M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$10.8M / $1.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$52K · 60 claims
1980s$28K · 67 claims
1990s$2.4M · 268 claims
2000s$781K · 50 claims
2010s$5.8M · 270 claims
2020s$2.7M · 90 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $4.5M | 138 claims |
| 1991 | $2.3M | 222 claims |
| 2023 | $1.3M | 16 claims |
| 2022 | $810K | 19 claims |
| 2011 | $750K | 22 claims |
Full disaster history for Newport 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.