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Rhea County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19802023 · 34th highest paid in Tennessee

Claims
82
Total paid
$1.7M
Average / claim
$21K
Building / contents
$1.1M / $556K

Paid by decade

1980s$47K · 2 claims
1990s$97K · 15 claims
2000s$376K · 39 claims
2010s$1.2M · 24 claims
2020s$5K · 2 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2019$1.0M12 claims
2004$319K17 claims
2013$137K6 claims
1990$85K7 claims
2003$56K20 claims

Full disaster history for Rhea County

Most-paid counties in Tennessee

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.