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Pottawattamie County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 8th highest paid in Iowa
Claims
867
Total paid
$10.8M
Average / claim
$12K
Building / contents
$9.6M / $1.2M
Paid by decade
1970s$8K · 11 claims
1980s$244K · 122 claims
1990s$1.2M · 338 claims
2000s$291K · 53 claims
2010s$8.2M · 322 claims
2020s$775K · 21 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2011 | $5.8M | 177 claims |
| 2019 | $1.7M | 56 claims |
| 1999 | $844K | 232 claims |
| 2024 | $725K | 16 claims |
| 2014 | $326K | 42 claims |
Full disaster history for Pottawattamie 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.