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Palm Beach County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 26th highest paid in Florida
Claims
10,757
Total paid
$72.2M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$58.6M / $13.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$1.0M · 856 claims
1980s$1.3M · 1,100 claims
1990s$19.8M · 3,004 claims
2000s$22.6M · 3,514 claims
2010s$17.9M · 1,858 claims
2020s$9.6M · 425 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2004 | $16.5M | 1,926 claims |
| 1999 | $8.6M | 1,500 claims |
| 2025 | $6.9M | 99 claims |
| 1995 | $6.2M | 606 claims |
| 2014 | $5.1M | 369 claims |
Full disaster history for Palm Beach 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.