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Queens County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 3rd highest paid in New York
Claims
14,935
Total paid
$693.9M
Average / claim
$46K
Building / contents
$613.8M / $80.1M
Paid by decade
1970s$1.2M · 535 claims
1980s$2.8M · 1,328 claims
1990s$16.3M · 1,701 claims
2000s$6.1M · 645 claims
2010s$637.9M · 9,538 claims
2020s$29.7M · 1,188 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $618.5M | 7,716 claims |
| 2011 | $14.7M | 1,342 claims |
| 2021 | $12.1M | 308 claims |
| 2022 | $10.4M | 454 claims |
| 1992 | $8.5M | 1,058 claims |
Full disaster history for Queens 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.