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Wake County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 21th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
1,642
Total paid
$31.3M
Average / claim
$19K
Building / contents
$26.4M / $4.9M
Paid by decade
1970s$244K · 76 claims
1980s$594K · 136 claims
1990s$11.0M · 643 claims
2000s$9.1M · 340 claims
2010s$8.5M · 369 claims
2020s$1.9M · 78 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $8.3M | 369 claims |
| 2006 | $7.4M | 185 claims |
| 2016 | $6.0M | 182 claims |
| 1999 | $1.4M | 141 claims |
| 2021 | $1.1M | 17 claims |
Full disaster history for Wake 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.