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Richland County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 5th highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
1,359
Total paid
$60.0M
Average / claim
$44K
Building / contents
$53.3M / $6.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$66K · 34 claims
1980s$650K · 94 claims
1990s$547K · 128 claims
2000s$370K · 65 claims
2010s$57.4M · 978 claims
2020s$881K · 60 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2015 | $55.6M | 826 claims |
| 2011 | $737K | 44 claims |
| 2024 | $514K | 27 claims |
| 1989 | $448K | 17 claims |
| 2013 | $380K | 29 claims |
Full disaster history for Richland 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.