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Nicholas County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2023 · 42th highest paid in Kentucky
Claims
48
Total paid
$1.9M
Average / claim
$39K
Building / contents
$1.2M / $680K
Paid by decade
1970s$21K · 6 claims
1980s$82K · 6 claims
1990s$239K · 12 claims
2000s$25K · 6 claims
2010s$51K · 10 claims
2020s$1.4M · 8 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2021 | $1.3M | 6 claims |
| 1997 | $94K | 5 claims |
| 2023 | $77K | 1 claims |
| 1992 | $48K | 1 claims |
| 1991 | $41K | 1 claims |
Full disaster history for Nicholas 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.