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Tompkins County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 45th highest paid in New York
Claims
290
Total paid
$1.9M
Average / claim
$6K
Building / contents
$1.6M / $250K
Paid by decade
1970s$14K · 26 claims
1980s$212K · 108 claims
1990s$1.3M · 89 claims
2000s$100K · 14 claims
2010s$256K · 46 claims
2020s$35K · 7 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $878K | 41 claims |
| 1993 | $315K | 27 claims |
| 1981 | $205K | 101 claims |
| 2011 | $84K | 16 claims |
| 1994 | $67K | 12 claims |
Full disaster history for Tompkins 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.