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Ritchie County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 54th highest paid in West Virginia

Claims
65
Total paid
$441K
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$354K / $87K

Paid by decade

1970s$3K · 3 claims
1980s$3K · 4 claims
1990s$225K · 35 claims
2000s$68K · 15 claims
2010s$140K · 7 claims
2020s$0 · 1 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1998$201K25 claims
2013$76K4 claims
2019$47K1 claims
2000$34K10 claims
2001$21K2 claims

Full disaster history for Ritchie County

Most-paid counties in West Virginia

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.