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San Mateo County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 13th highest paid in California
Claims
1,110
Total paid
$20.1M
Average / claim
$18K
Building / contents
$16.6M / $3.5M
Paid by decade
1970s$29K · 34 claims
1980s$1.7M · 337 claims
1990s$4.0M · 306 claims
2000s$2.7M · 110 claims
2010s$2.2M · 141 claims
2020s$9.5M · 182 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $6.0M | 97 claims |
| 1998 | $3.8M | 236 claims |
| 2021 | $2.6M | 44 claims |
| 2005 | $1.3M | 17 claims |
| 2014 | $1.1M | 35 claims |
Full disaster history for San Mateo 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.