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Polk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 51th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
79
Total paid
$4.4M
Average / claim
$56K
Building / contents
$3.8M / $637K
Paid by decade
1970s$5K · 4 claims
1980s$1K · 1 claims
1990s$18K · 5 claims
2000s$63K · 4 claims
2010s$376K · 22 claims
2020s$4.0M · 43 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $3.4M | 31 claims |
| 2020 | $538K | 7 claims |
| 2018 | $244K | 14 claims |
| 2013 | $71K | 2 claims |
| 2004 | $63K | 4 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.