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Wapello County Flood Insurance Claims

National Flood Insurance Program, 19802024 · 26th highest paid in Iowa

Claims
119
Total paid
$2.3M
Average / claim
$19K
Building / contents
$1.9M / $445K

Paid by decade

1980s$14K · 11 claims
1990s$29K · 10 claims
2000s$1.4M · 38 claims
2010s$830K · 58 claims
2020s$0 · 2 claims

Worst years by dollars paid

2008$1.4M36 claims
2010$602K41 claims
2013$124K8 claims
2019$88K5 claims
2000$28K2 claims

Full disaster history for Wapello County

Most-paid counties in Iowa

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.