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Vermilion Parish Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 15th highest paid in Louisiana

Claims
4,799
Total paid
$170.7M
Average / claim
$36K
Building / contents
$143.6M / $27.1M

Paid by decade

1970s$67K · 47 claims
1980s$2.7M · 291 claims
1990s$2.2M · 214 claims
2000s$107.8M · 3,015 claims
2010s$55.5M · 1,072 claims
2020s$2.5M · 160 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2005$64.1M1,564 claims
2016$54.1M963 claims
2008$36.6M1,072 claims
2001$5.5M246 claims
2020$2.0M138 claims

Full disaster history for Vermilion Parish →

Most-paid counties in Louisiana

Orleans Parish$7.2BJefferson Parish$3.5BSt. Bernard Parish$2.2BSt. Tammany Parish$1.8BEast Baton Rouge Parish$1.3BLivingston Parish$829.8MSt. John the Baptist Parish$654.1MPlaquemines Parish$378.4M

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.