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Sierra County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2020 · 20th highest paid in New Mexico
Claims
15
Total paid
$158K
Average / claim
$11K
Building / contents
$147K / $10K
Paid by decade
1970s$288 · 1 claims
1980s$9K · 2 claims
1990s$18K · 3 claims
2000s$464 · 1 claims
2010s$123K · 7 claims
2020s$8K · 1 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2013 | $123K | 7 claims |
| 1996 | $18K | 3 claims |
| 1981 | $8K | 1 claims |
| 2020 | $8K | 1 claims |
| 2006 | $464 | 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.