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Penobscot County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 11th highest paid in Maine
Claims
238
Total paid
$1.7M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$1.3M / $443K
Paid by decade
1970s$31K · 28 claims
1980s$990K · 104 claims
1990s$79K · 31 claims
2000s$419K · 52 claims
2010s$138K · 20 claims
2020s$49K · 3 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1987 | $916K | 64 claims |
| 2008 | $313K | 28 claims |
| 2005 | $93K | 17 claims |
| 1983 | $64K | 21 claims |
| 2010 | $53K | 4 claims |
Full disaster history for Penobscot 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.