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Polk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 48th highest paid in Georgia
Claims
143
Total paid
$981K
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$764K / $217K
Paid by decade
1970s$519K · 66 claims
1980s$59K · 21 claims
1990s$125K · 29 claims
2000s$4K · 4 claims
2010s$54K · 13 claims
2020s$221K · 10 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1979 | $518K | 65 claims |
| 2025 | $116K | 5 claims |
| 2021 | $104K | 5 claims |
| 1990 | $75K | 15 claims |
| 2018 | $39K | 7 claims |
Full disaster history for Polk 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.