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Orleans Parish Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 1st highest paid in Louisiana
Claims
127,250
Total paid
$7.2B
Average / claim
$57K
Building / contents
$5.9B / $1.3B
Paid by decade
1970s$11.8M · 3,189 claims
1980s$67.9M · 15,085 claims
1990s$222.9M · 22,191 claims
2000s$6.8B · 79,763 claims
2010s$95.3M · 4,274 claims
2020s$43.0M · 2,748 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2005 | $6.7B | 71,538 claims |
| 1995 | $160.6M | 13,842 claims |
| 2019 | $44.5M | 1,152 claims |
| 1998 | $36.1M | 4,204 claims |
| 2021 | $30.4M | 2,026 claims |
Full disaster history for Orleans Parish →
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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.