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Ottawa County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782026 · 10th highest paid in Ohio

Claims
1,384
Total paid
$9.4M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$7.7M / $1.7M

Paid by decade

1970s$32K · 14 claims
1980s$2.9M · 820 claims
1990s$3.4M · 353 claims
2000s$276K · 28 claims
2010s$1.3M · 111 claims
2020s$1.6M · 58 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1998$3.1M283 claims
1982$1.8M351 claims
2021$734K24 claims
2023$716K12 claims
2018$537K33 claims

Full disaster history for Ottawa County

Most-paid counties in Ohio

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.