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Ouachita Parish Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 16th highest paid in Louisiana
Claims
6,982
Total paid
$162.7M
Average / claim
$23K
Building / contents
$137.9M / $24.8M
Paid by decade
1970s$5.1M · 473 claims
1980s$13.9M · 1,671 claims
1990s$21.2M · 1,569 claims
2000s$11.1M · 638 claims
2010s$109.0M · 2,545 claims
2020s$2.4M · 86 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $89.8M | 1,765 claims |
| 1991 | $19.9M | 1,326 claims |
| 2011 | $13.4M | 580 claims |
| 1989 | $9.4M | 989 claims |
| 2008 | $8.3M | 376 claims |
Full disaster history for Ouachita 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.