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Wood County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2024 · 8th highest paid in West Virginia
Claims
947
Total paid
$13.2M
Average / claim
$14K
Building / contents
$10.9M / $2.3M
Paid by decade
1970s$253K · 75 claims
1980s$318K · 88 claims
1990s$4.5M · 354 claims
2000s$6.0M · 337 claims
2010s$1.6M · 72 claims
2020s$566K · 21 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2004 | $4.5M | 182 claims |
| 1998 | $1.4M | 105 claims |
| 2005 | $1.4M | 113 claims |
| 1996 | $1.0M | 67 claims |
| 2015 | $964K | 24 claims |
Full disaster history for Wood County →
Most-paid counties in West Virginia
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.