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Polk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in Iowa
Claims
1,550
Total paid
$36.9M
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$28.0M / $8.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$20K · 13 claims
1980s$678K · 157 claims
1990s$11.4M · 771 claims
2000s$8.0M · 189 claims
2010s$16.4M · 384 claims
2020s$344K · 36 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $10.1M | 145 claims |
| 1993 | $8.5M | 454 claims |
| 2008 | $7.5M | 154 claims |
| 2010 | $3.5M | 167 claims |
| 2015 | $2.2M | 37 claims |
Full disaster history for Polk County →
Most-paid counties in Iowa
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.