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Nicholas County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2022 · 11th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
216
Total paid
$8.7M
Average / claim
$40K
Building / contents
$6.4M / $2.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$3K · 8 claims
1980s$46K · 19 claims
1990s$92K · 13 claims
2000s$2.7M · 99 claims
2010s$5.9M · 73 claims
2020s$13K · 4 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $5.8M | 70 claims |
| 2003 | $2.4M | 67 claims |
| 2001 | $331K | 26 claims |
| 1996 | $60K | 9 claims |
| 2013 | $33K | 3 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.