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Otero County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2021 · 6th highest paid in Colorado
Claims
139
Total paid
$1.7M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$1.5M / $192K
Paid by decade
1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$0 · 4 claims
1990s$1.6M · 114 claims
2000s$0 · 1 claims
2010s$77K · 18 claims
2020s$5K · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1999 | $1.6M | 104 claims |
| 2015 | $54K | 11 claims |
| 1990 | $25K | 4 claims |
| 1997 | $20K | 4 claims |
| 2017 | $11K | 4 claims |
Full disaster history for Otero 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.