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Nueces County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 9th highest paid in Texas
Claims
8,673
Total paid
$186.4M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$147.7M / $38.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$1.0M · 465 claims
1980s$8.4M · 1,585 claims
1990s$4.0M · 777 claims
2000s$10.1M · 1,001 claims
2010s$158.5M · 4,582 claims
2020s$4.3M · 263 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $145.4M | 3,736 claims |
| 1980 | $7.0M | 1,227 claims |
| 2016 | $5.9M | 234 claims |
| 2002 | $4.6M | 391 claims |
| 2010 | $3.3M | 209 claims |
Full disaster history for Nueces 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.