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Riverside County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 11th highest paid in California

Claims
1,636
Total paid
$21.2M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$18.3M / $2.9M

Paid by decade

1970s$1.1M · 278 claims
1980s$3.7M · 663 claims
1990s$1.6M · 261 claims
2000s$743K · 92 claims
2010s$9.5M · 234 claims
2020s$4.5M · 108 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2014$6.8M87 claims
2023$3.3M74 claims
1980$2.5M340 claims
1979$1.1M243 claims
2010$860K35 claims

Full disaster history for Riverside County →

Most-paid counties in California

Sonoma County$131.8MLos Angeles County$72.4MMarin County$54.7MSan Diego County$48.0MMonterey County$42.2MSacramento County$38.7MSanta Barbara County$31.4MNapa County$29.8M

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.