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Wicomico County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2024 · 16th highest paid in Maryland
Claims
243
Total paid
$5.9M
Average / claim
$24K
Building / contents
$5.5M / $437K
Paid by decade
1970s$588 · 1 claims
1980s$0 · 2 claims
1990s$54K · 22 claims
2000s$570K · 51 claims
2010s$4.7M · 144 claims
2020s$565K · 23 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2016 | $1.8M | 31 claims |
| 2012 | $1.8M | 68 claims |
| 2018 | $792K | 14 claims |
| 2003 | $432K | 34 claims |
| 2017 | $321K | 14 claims |
Full disaster history for Wicomico 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.