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St. Bernard Parish Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 3rd highest paid in Louisiana
Claims
23,919
Total paid
$2.2B
Average / claim
$93K
Building / contents
$1.7B / $554.0M
Paid by decade
1970s$10.0M · 1,318 claims
1980s$14.9M · 2,629 claims
1990s$8.8M · 1,535 claims
2000s$2.2B · 17,704 claims
2010s$3.7M · 486 claims
2020s$2.1M · 247 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2005 | $2.2B | 16,719 claims |
| 1978 | $10.0M | 1,276 claims |
| 1980 | $6.5M | 1,082 claims |
| 1983 | $5.5M | 818 claims |
| 1995 | $4.6M | 728 claims |
Full disaster history for St. Bernard Parish →
Most-paid counties in Louisiana
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.