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Polk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2023 · 1st highest paid in Minnesota
Claims
1,455
Total paid
$36.3M
Average / claim
$25K
Building / contents
$32.4M / $3.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$816K · 195 claims
1980s$24K · 31 claims
1990s$34.9M · 1,118 claims
2000s$136K · 59 claims
2010s$356K · 42 claims
2020s$49K · 10 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1997 | $33.9M | 1,019 claims |
| 1979 | $720K | 159 claims |
| 1999 | $557K | 60 claims |
| 1998 | $366K | 17 claims |
| 2019 | $170K | 18 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.