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Wise County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 46th highest paid in Virginia
Claims
348
Total paid
$2.7M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$2.1M / $592K
Paid by decade
1970s$15K · 14 claims
1980s$384K · 122 claims
1990s$39K · 11 claims
2000s$1.1M · 140 claims
2010s$659K · 42 claims
2020s$507K · 19 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2002 | $691K | 81 claims |
| 2022 | $337K | 10 claims |
| 1982 | $288K | 67 claims |
| 2001 | $228K | 18 claims |
| 2015 | $166K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Wise 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.