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Swain County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1982–2025 · 67th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
56
Total paid
$1.2M
Average / claim
$22K
Building / contents
$799K / $408K
Paid by decade
1980s$4K · 2 claims
1990s$279K · 15 claims
2000s$221K · 6 claims
2010s$207K · 19 claims
2020s$496K · 14 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $323K | 7 claims |
| 1994 | $196K | 7 claims |
| 2004 | $139K | 3 claims |
| 2020 | $137K | 5 claims |
| 2013 | $129K | 4 claims |
Full disaster history for Swain 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.