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Wilkes County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1979–2025 · 65th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
34
Total paid
$1.4M
Average / claim
$41K
Building / contents
$900K / $480K
Paid by decade
1970s$255K · 3 claims
1980s$114K · 4 claims
1990s$420K · 8 claims
2000s$470 · 1 claims
2010s$23K · 6 claims
2020s$567K · 12 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $501K | 6 claims |
| 1998 | $369K | 4 claims |
| 1979 | $255K | 3 claims |
| 1980 | $112K | 1 claims |
| 2020 | $42K | 2 claims |
Full disaster history for Wilkes 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.