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Wayne County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2026 · 14th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
1,193
Total paid
$46.6M
Average / claim
$39K
Building / contents
$39.5M / $7.1M
Paid by decade
1970s$30K · 5 claims
1980s$53K · 14 claims
1990s$11.6M · 497 claims
2000s$151K · 30 claims
2010s$34.2M · 623 claims
2020s$561K · 24 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $29.6M | 456 claims |
| 1999 | $10.5M | 394 claims |
| 2018 | $4.6M | 161 claims |
| 1996 | $833K | 71 claims |
| 2020 | $300K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Wayne 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.