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Wharton County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2026 · 21th highest paid in Texas
Claims
1,166
Total paid
$51.5M
Average / claim
$44K
Building / contents
$44.3M / $7.1M
Paid by decade
1970s$24K · 8 claims
1980s$76K · 22 claims
1990s$2.0M · 130 claims
2000s$6.5M · 317 claims
2010s$42.8M · 675 claims
2020s$87K · 14 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2017 | $36.2M | 488 claims |
| 2004 | $5.5M | 206 claims |
| 2019 | $2.9M | 67 claims |
| 2016 | $2.5M | 76 claims |
| 1998 | $1.6M | 59 claims |
Full disaster history for Wharton 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.