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Orange County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 4th highest paid in Texas
Claims
12,875
Total paid
$1.0B
Average / claim
$81K
Building / contents
$741.5M / $301.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$695K · 178 claims
1980s$2.4M · 529 claims
1990s$3.1M · 376 claims
2000s$369.4M · 4,724 claims
2010s$664.6M · 6,884 claims
2020s$3.0M · 184 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $466.3M | 4,395 claims |
| 2008 | $352.8M | 3,416 claims |
| 2019 | $189.1M | 2,167 claims |
| 2005 | $7.0M | 643 claims |
| 2016 | $6.9M | 167 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.