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Yancey County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1983–2024 · 37th highest paid in North Carolina
Claims
146
Total paid
$8.9M
Average / claim
$61K
Building / contents
$7.5M / $1.4M
Paid by decade
1980s$2K · 5 claims
1990s$100K · 15 claims
2000s$606K · 28 claims
2010s$95K · 12 claims
2020s$8.1M · 86 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2024 | $7.8M | 76 claims |
| 2004 | $602K | 26 claims |
| 2021 | $307K | 9 claims |
| 2018 | $82K | 4 claims |
| 1994 | $43K | 6 claims |
Full disaster history for Yancey 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.