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Upshur County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 38th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
414
Total paid
$2.7M
Average / claim
$7K
Building / contents
$2.2M / $539K
Paid by decade
1970s$23K · 4 claims
1980s$577K · 68 claims
1990s$1.9M · 272 claims
2000s$110K · 30 claims
2010s$4K · 3 claims
2020s$119K · 37 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $988K | 136 claims |
| 1994 | $770K | 114 claims |
| 1985 | $568K | 57 claims |
| 1997 | $87K | 6 claims |
| 2000 | $56K | 21 claims |
Full disaster history for Upshur 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.