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Suffolk County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in New York
Claims
33,927
Total paid
$1.1B
Average / claim
$32K
Building / contents
$978.3M / $121.6M
Paid by decade
1970s$1.9M · 1,019 claims
1980s$11.3M · 3,572 claims
1990s$102.1M · 7,918 claims
2000s$26.7M · 2,677 claims
2010s$919.9M · 17,762 claims
2020s$37.9M · 979 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $852.1M | 13,307 claims |
| 2011 | $46.9M | 2,230 claims |
| 1992 | $45.5M | 3,200 claims |
| 1991 | $24.4M | 2,396 claims |
| 2024 | $24.1M | 494 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.