FEMA OpenFEMA data table
Flood insurance claims by county in California
Los Angeles County has the most county-identified NFIP claims in California, with 9,104 claims out of 53,563 NFIP claims in this dataset.
Published by checkmyfloodzone.com.
Source: FEMA OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3 (API: OpenFEMA). County names: US Census 2020 county codes. Data fetched: . Last updated: .
These are NFIP claims grouped by county of the insured property. They count insured losses only; uninsured flood damage is not in NFIP data. County was unknown for 62,433 claims nationally. Outside-high-risk counts use records whose rated flood-zone value starts with X, B, or C.
| County | Total claims | Since 2016 | Outside high-risk | Total paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County | 9,104 | 891 | 4,801 | $72,393,803 |
| Sonoma County | 7,403 | 974 | 829 | $131,759,077 |
| Sacramento County | 3,864 | 418 | 930 | $38,748,486 |
| Orange County | 3,839 | 227 | 1,279 | $21,175,182 |
| Marin County | 3,301 | 269 | 742 | $54,658,244 |
| San Diego County | 2,442 | 661 | 1,118 | $48,042,800 |
| Riverside County | 1,636 | 195 | 601 | $21,222,649 |
| Santa Cruz County | 1,633 | 397 | 274 | $24,885,666 |
| Santa Clara County | 1,630 | 260 | 181 | $24,548,736 |
| Monterey County | 1,492 | 252 | 236 | $42,297,822 |
| Lake County | 1,432 | 171 | 208 | $14,096,160 |
| Napa County | 1,361 | 29 | 194 | $29,784,713 |
| Ventura County | 1,331 | 173 | 535 | $15,950,330 |
| Santa Barbara County | 1,309 | 405 | 620 | $31,356,454 |
| Contra Costa County | 1,202 | 178 | 373 | $12,909,416 |
| San Mateo County | 1,110 | 240 | 468 | $20,111,765 |
| San Bernardino County | 864 | 121 | 390 | $10,224,665 |
| Placer County | 628 | 33 | 293 | $16,092,150 |
| San Luis Obispo County | 613 | 138 | 278 | $8,596,191 |
| Solano County | 594 | 67 | 225 | $10,955,023 |
| Alameda County | 568 | 123 | 263 | $4,564,344 |
| Merced County | 499 | 242 | 18 | $14,690,674 |
| Tehama County | 428 | 39 | 141 | $5,573,240 |
| San Joaquin County | 421 | 109 | 209 | $8,180,668 |
| Tulare County | 366 | 131 | 63 | $4,314,615 |
| Yolo County | 340 | 41 | 88 | $3,304,084 |
| Butte County | 335 | 71 | 110 | $7,200,790 |
| Yuba County | 320 | 27 | 197 | $8,325,024 |
| Kern County | 280 | 69 | 88 | $1,515,473 |
| Fresno County | 278 | 23 | 110 | $2,236,717 |
| Shasta County | 256 | 70 | 84 | $4,836,962 |
| Stanislaus County | 242 | 26 | 84 | $4,678,560 |
| El Dorado County | 207 | 64 | 116 | $4,006,869 |
| Humboldt County | 201 | 20 | 52 | $3,112,255 |
| Sutter County | 199 | 42 | 107 | $3,046,665 |
| Glenn County | 195 | 20 | 45 | $2,430,510 |
| Mendocino County | 183 | 15 | 36 | $4,701,033 |
| Colusa County | 160 | 25 | 93 | $2,950,769 |
| San Francisco County | 147 | 18 | 18 | $2,916,709 |
| San Benito County | 129 | 78 | 26 | $3,873,544 |
| Imperial County | 103 | 2 | 9 | $560,324 |
| Amador County | 78 | 21 | 17 | $1,510,668 |
| Calaveras County | 74 | 34 | 26 | $2,253,391 |
| Siskiyou County | 67 | 1 | 15 | $469,534 |
| Madera County | 63 | 15 | 18 | $698,721 |
| Nevada County | 63 | 20 | 26 | $1,145,373 |
| Plumas County | 57 | 16 | 12 | $1,132,329 |
| Lassen County | 52 | 22 | 7 | $1,045,614 |
| Mono County | 46 | 4 | 21 | $384,887 |
| Del Norte County | 37 | 4 | 9 | $454,598 |
| Sierra County | 26 | 7 | 1 | $592,282 |
| Trinity County | 23 | 1 | 12 | $72,552 |
| Tuolumne County | 20 | 11 | 16 | $308,820 |
| Kings County | 10 | 6 | 5 | $150,801 |
| Alpine County | 5 | 2 | 0 | $45,997 |
| Inyo County | 4 | 0 | 1 | $11,669 |