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St. John the Baptist Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19782026 · 7th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
8,979
Total paid
$654.1M
Average / claim
$73K
Building / contents
$494.4M / $159.8M

Paid by decade

1970s$25K · 10 claims
1980s$747K · 114 claims
1990s$1.7M · 235 claims
2000s$6.5M · 1,170 claims
2010s$257.0M · 3,497 claims
2020s$388.1M · 3,953 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2021$375.3M3,653 claims
2012$256.0M3,385 claims
2024$10.9M226 claims
2005$4.0M751 claims
2020$1.6M43 claims

Full disaster history for St. John the Baptist 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.