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Salem city Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 11th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
812
Total paid
$18.9M
Average / claim
$23K
Building / contents
$16.8M / $2.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$737K · 103 claims
1980s$3.8M · 181 claims
1990s$3.9M · 184 claims
2000s$7.4M · 239 claims
2010s$2.5M · 68 claims
2020s$473K · 37 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2004 | $4.1M | 130 claims |
| 1985 | $3.8M | 152 claims |
| 2003 | $3.3M | 87 claims |
| 1992 | $3.2M | 131 claims |
| 2018 | $1.8M | 32 claims |
Full disaster history for Salem city →
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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.