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Sarasota County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 6th highest paid in Florida

Claims
14,412
Total paid
$853.7M
Average / claim
$59K
Building / contents
$752.6M / $101.1M

Paid by decade

1970s$34K · 39 claims
1980s$6.2M · 1,409 claims
1990s$17.9M · 2,266 claims
2000s$9.5M · 818 claims
2010s$4.2M · 444 claims
2020s$815.9M · 9,436 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2024$743.1M7,846 claims
2022$58.9M1,316 claims
2023$9.0M146 claims
1992$6.5M935 claims
2020$4.8M97 claims

Full disaster history for Sarasota County →

Most-paid counties in Florida

Lee County$4.0BPinellas County$3.7BHillsborough County$1.2BCollier County$1.1BMiami-Dade County$855.6MEscambia County$723.2MMonroe County$709.0MPasco County$692.0M

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.