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Portsmouth city Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 10th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
1,740
Total paid
$19.8M
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$18.4M / $1.4M
Paid by decade
1970s$2K · 13 claims
1980s$43K · 36 claims
1990s$1.4M · 339 claims
2000s$9.6M · 802 claims
2010s$8.5M · 511 claims
2020s$140K · 39 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2009 | $5.4M | 379 claims |
| 2016 | $5.2M | 239 claims |
| 2003 | $3.4M | 337 claims |
| 2011 | $1.5M | 138 claims |
| 2014 | $1.2M | 60 claims |
Full disaster history for Portsmouth city →
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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.