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Ottawa County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792026 · 12th highest paid in Michigan

Claims
336
Total paid
$3.3M
Average / claim
$10K
Building / contents
$3.0M / $357K

Paid by decade

1970s$0 · 1 claims
1980s$778K · 93 claims
1990s$153K · 33 claims
2000s$996K · 68 claims
2010s$1.0M · 100 claims
2020s$370K · 41 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2013$628K61 claims
1985$513K46 claims
2009$506K28 claims
2005$303K10 claims
2020$287K29 claims

Full disaster history for Ottawa County

Most-paid counties in Michigan

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.