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Flood insurance claims by county in Massachusetts

Plymouth County has the most county-identified NFIP claims in Massachusetts, with 10,959 claims out of 35,375 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.

NFIP flood insurance claim counts by county in Massachusetts
CountyTotal claimsSince 2016Outside high-riskTotal paid
Plymouth County10,9598751,756$152,723,945
Essex County5,4567841,341$94,023,070
Suffolk County4,369284548$28,967,247
Middlesex County3,7521861,247$36,375,006
Norfolk County3,262454804$25,840,243
Barnstable County3,184537651$42,888,658
Bristol County1,558121313$13,698,275
Worcester County765101239$12,555,181
Nantucket County60258194$17,560,881
Berkshire County3881796$3,040,907
Hampden County2791986$2,692,519
Hampshire County2152434$2,000,913
Dukes County1601328$1,746,153
Franklin County114739$3,433,415