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Yakima County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2025 · 16th highest paid in Washington
Claims
320
Total paid
$2.8M
Average / claim
$9K
Building / contents
$2.4M / $421K
Paid by decade
1970s$15K · 6 claims
1980s$226K · 62 claims
1990s$1.1M · 156 claims
2000s$300K · 17 claims
2010s$1.1M · 73 claims
2020s$57K · 6 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 1996 | $895K | 107 claims |
| 2016 | $603K | 27 claims |
| 2017 | $350K | 20 claims |
| 2009 | $216K | 9 claims |
| 1990 | $104K | 9 claims |
Full disaster history for Yakima 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.