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Sussex County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 2nd highest paid in Delaware
Claims
4,307
Total paid
$35.5M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$32.7M / $2.7M
Paid by decade
1970s$44K · 13 claims
1980s$888K · 276 claims
1990s$11.9M · 1,767 claims
2000s$1.8M · 298 claims
2010s$19.7M · 1,825 claims
2020s$1.2M · 128 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2012 | $17.3M | 1,486 claims |
| 1998 | $6.0M | 756 claims |
| 1992 | $5.0M | 672 claims |
| 2016 | $1.2M | 141 claims |
| 2021 | $871K | 44 claims |
Full disaster history for Sussex 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.