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Pender County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 6th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
5,888
Total paid
$117.4M
Average / claim
$20K
Building / contents
$98.2M / $19.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$14K · 12 claims
1980s$1.3M · 278 claims
1990s$44.4M · 3,822 claims
2000s$645K · 164 claims
2010s$70.7M · 1,569 claims
2020s$455K · 43 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $65.8M | 1,330 claims |
| 1996 | $29.2M | 2,067 claims |
| 1999 | $14.1M | 1,213 claims |
| 2016 | $3.6M | 139 claims |
| 1998 | $713K | 371 claims |
Full disaster history for Pender 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.