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Philadelphia County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 9th highest paid in Pennsylvania
Claims
1,700
Total paid
$47.5M
Average / claim
$28K
Building / contents
$38.3M / $9.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$418K · 120 claims
1980s$1.8M · 319 claims
1990s$7.1M · 306 claims
2000s$3.6M · 256 claims
2010s$7.8M · 277 claims
2020s$26.9M · 422 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2021 | $17.9M | 142 claims |
| 2020 | $8.8M | 251 claims |
| 1999 | $6.1M | 227 claims |
| 2014 | $3.9M | 40 claims |
| 2011 | $2.9M | 119 claims |
Full disaster history for Philadelphia 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.