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Santa Barbara County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 7th highest paid in California
Claims
1,309
Total paid
$31.4M
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$28.8M / $2.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$48K · 45 claims
1980s$1.7M · 179 claims
1990s$5.1M · 579 claims
2000s$901K · 83 claims
2010s$17.9M · 253 claims
2020s$5.7M · 170 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2018 | $16.6M | 183 claims |
| 2023 | $4.0M | 128 claims |
| 1995 | $3.8M | 339 claims |
| 1983 | $1.6M | 119 claims |
| 2024 | $1.5M | 20 claims |
Full disaster history for Santa Barbara 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.