Home / Flood Insurance Claims / South Carolina / Sumter County
Sumter County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 11th highest paid in South Carolina
Claims
292
Total paid
$7.7M
Average / claim
$26K
Building / contents
$6.9M / $750K
Paid by decade
1970s$1K · 2 claims
1980s$167K · 16 claims
1990s$16K · 14 claims
2000s$0 · 4 claims
2010s$6.5M · 213 claims
2020s$1.0M · 43 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2015 | $6.3M | 178 claims |
| 2020 | $994K | 33 claims |
| 1989 | $163K | 10 claims |
| 2018 | $137K | 12 claims |
| 2016 | $44K | 20 claims |
Full disaster history for Sumter County →
Most-paid counties in South Carolina
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.