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San Francisco County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782025 · 37th highest paid in California

Claims
147
Total paid
$2.7M
Average / claim
$18K
Building / contents
$2.4M / $294K

Paid by decade

1970s$113K · 32 claims
1980s$1.7M · 95 claims
2000s$2K · 1 claims
2010s$336K · 7 claims
2020s$506K · 12 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

1982$1.2M45 claims
2022$443K4 claims
1986$337K13 claims
2019$333K5 claims
1978$71K24 claims

Full disaster history for San Francisco County

Most-paid counties in California

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.