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Suffolk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 5th highest paid in Massachusetts
Claims
4,369
Total paid
$29.0M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$24.1M / $4.8M
Paid by decade
1970s$6.0M · 1,202 claims
1980s$1.2M · 518 claims
1990s$11.9M · 1,606 claims
2000s$3.3M · 564 claims
2010s$4.9M · 383 claims
2020s$1.6M · 96 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1991 | $7.6M | 731 claims |
| 1978 | $4.1M | 527 claims |
| 2018 | $3.9M | 154 claims |
| 1992 | $2.5M | 380 claims |
| 2006 | $2.1M | 211 claims |
Full disaster history for Suffolk 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.