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Orange County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 12th highest paid in California
Claims
3,835
Total paid
$21.1M
Average / claim
$6K
Building / contents
$18.4M / $2.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$225K · 186 claims
1980s$3.0M · 821 claims
1990s$9.1M · 2,047 claims
2000s$2.2M · 312 claims
2010s$4.6M · 379 claims
2020s$1.9M · 90 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1997 | $3.2M | 435 claims |
| 2010 | $3.2M | 208 claims |
| 1995 | $2.6M | 621 claims |
| 1998 | $2.3M | 570 claims |
| 1983 | $2.0M | 499 claims |
Full disaster history for Orange 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.