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Story County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19792026 · 7th highest paid in Iowa

Claims
286
Total paid
$13.0M
Average / claim
$45K
Building / contents
$10.2M / $2.8M

Paid by decade

1970s$341 · 2 claims
1980s$4K · 6 claims
1990s$2.9M · 135 claims
2000s$1.8M · 44 claims
2010s$8.3M · 95 claims
2020s$82K · 4 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2010$8.2M78 claims
1993$2.0M72 claims
2008$1.7M35 claims
1990$424K23 claims
1996$391K34 claims

Full disaster history for Story County

Most-paid counties in Iowa

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.