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Wetzel County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 14th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
498
Total paid
$6.3M
Average / claim
$13K
Building / contents
$5.8M / $485K
Paid by decade
1970s$15K · 10 claims
1980s$62K · 27 claims
1990s$500K · 110 claims
2000s$4.6M · 305 claims
2010s$557K · 25 claims
2020s$564K · 21 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2004 | $4.0M | 220 claims |
| 2024 | $555K | 17 claims |
| 2017 | $500K | 18 claims |
| 1996 | $377K | 78 claims |
| 2005 | $325K | 37 claims |
Full disaster history for Wetzel 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.