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Sierra County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1995–2017 · 47th highest paid in California
Claims
26
Total paid
$592K
Average / claim
$23K
Building / contents
$557K / $35K
Paid by decade
1990s$91K · 12 claims
2000s$383K · 7 claims
2010s$118K · 7 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2005 | $383K | 7 claims |
| 2017 | $118K | 7 claims |
| 1997 | $62K | 8 claims |
| 1996 | $29K | 3 claims |
| 1995 | $17 | 1 claims |
Full disaster history for Sierra 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.