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Pocahontas County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2021 · 6th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
706
Total paid
$15.1M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$9.2M / $5.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$1K · 3 claims
1980s$2.8M · 167 claims
1990s$10.1M · 393 claims
2000s$584K · 63 claims
2010s$1.6M · 79 claims
2020s$26K · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $10.1M | 388 claims |
| 1985 | $2.7M | 115 claims |
| 2010 | $1.1M | 63 claims |
| 2016 | $474K | 14 claims |
| 2003 | $319K | 27 claims |
Full disaster history for Pocahontas 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.