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Pennington County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782023 · 21th highest paid in South Dakota

Claims
135
Total paid
$556K
Average / claim
$4K
Building / contents
$528K / $27K

Paid by decade

1970s$3K · 8 claims
1980s$30K · 19 claims
1990s$60K · 39 claims
2000s$84K · 17 claims
2010s$327K · 50 claims
2020s$52K · 2 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2019$128K14 claims
2015$90K16 claims
2008$72K9 claims
2018$54K5 claims
2023$52K1 claims

Full disaster history for Pennington County

Most-paid counties in South Dakota

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.