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Yellowstone County Flood Insurance Claims
National Flood Insurance Program, 1978–2023 · 3rd highest paid in Montana
Claims
272
Total paid
$2.3M
Average / claim
$8K
Building / contents
$2.0M / $314K
Paid by decade
1970s$218K · 60 claims
1980s$15K · 16 claims
1990s$401K · 59 claims
2000s$18K · 13 claims
2010s$803K · 92 claims
2020s$825K · 32 claims
Worst years by dollars paid
| 2022 | $791K | 25 claims |
| 1997 | $346K | 49 claims |
| 2011 | $332K | 46 claims |
| 1978 | $181K | 52 claims |
| 2014 | $169K | 7 claims |
Full disaster history for Yellowstone 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.