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Preston County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 47th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
99
Total paid
$825K
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$731K / $94K
Paid by decade
1970s$2K · 4 claims
1980s$352K · 29 claims
1990s$217K · 37 claims
2000s$32K · 11 claims
2010s$59K · 12 claims
2020s$163K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1985 | $339K | 19 claims |
| 1996 | $151K | 25 claims |
| 2025 | $90K | 1 claims |
| 1994 | $64K | 11 claims |
| 2021 | $63K | 3 claims |
Full disaster history for Preston 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.