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Santa Clara County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 10th highest paid in California
Claims
1,630
Total paid
$24.5M
Average / claim
$15K
Building / contents
$23.1M / $1.4M
Paid by decade
1970s$19K · 29 claims
1980s$2.1M · 341 claims
1990s$12.0M · 863 claims
2000s$924K · 94 claims
2010s$8.3M · 242 claims
2020s$1.1M · 61 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1998 | $9.5M | 536 claims |
| 2017 | $7.4M | 188 claims |
| 1983 | $1.7M | 176 claims |
| 1995 | $1.4M | 196 claims |
| 1997 | $899K | 72 claims |
Full disaster history for Santa Clara 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.