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Richmond County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 5th highest paid in New York
Claims
19,421
Total paid
$278.2M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$244.9M / $33.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$16.0M · 6,117 claims
1980s$9.3M · 6,439 claims
1990s$3.6M · 704 claims
2000s$1.4M · 351 claims
2010s$241.4M · 5,398 claims
2020s$6.4M · 412 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $233.7M | 4,136 claims |
| 1979 | $10.5M | 3,985 claims |
| 2021 | $6.0M | 360 claims |
| 1980 | $6.0M | 3,350 claims |
| 2011 | $5.7M | 941 claims |
Full disaster history for Richmond 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.