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Transylvania County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2024 · 44th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
153
Total paid
$6.3M
Average / claim
$41K
Building / contents
$5.5M / $764K
Paid by decade
1970s$34K · 8 claims
1980s$0 · 3 claims
1990s$136K · 28 claims
2000s$358K · 29 claims
2010s$40K · 8 claims
2020s$5.7M · 77 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $4.7M | 62 claims |
| 2021 | $1.0M | 13 claims |
| 2004 | $313K | 18 claims |
| 1994 | $100K | 19 claims |
| 2009 | $40K | 7 claims |
Full disaster history for Transylvania 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.