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Counties with the highest average NFIP building payment

Name: Counties with the highest average NFIP building payment
Creator: Floodmapz

U.S. counties ranked by average NFIP building claim payment during the last 10 years, limited to counties with at least 10 claims.

Top 100 counties1,445 counties with available data

Rankings update with the underlying FEMA datasets.

Counties with the highest average NFIP building payment
Rank	County	State	Average payment	10-year claims
1	Madison	North Carolina	$170,668	44
2	Laurens	South Carolina	$132,208	11
3	Hardin	Texas	$131,001	971
4	Carter	Missouri	$128,652	25
5	Mills	Iowa	$125,327	34
6	Buffalo	Nebraska	$124,473	48
7	Whitfield	Georgia	$120,687	19
8	Kerr	Texas	$119,332	138
9	Thomas	Georgia	$116,854	10
10	Sioux	Iowa	$116,325	29
11	Burke	North Carolina	$114,686	77
12	Gladwin	Michigan	$114,282	11
13	Nacogdoches	Texas	$110,105	23
14	Rockingham	Virginia	$109,814	15
15	Buncombe	North Carolina	$109,341	671
16	Pinellas	Florida	$106,860	30,121
17	Hickman	Tennessee	$106,729	32
18	Ripley	Missouri	$106,359	56
19	Davison	South Dakota	$105,234	17
20	Duplin	North Carolina	$104,177	382
21	Colorado	Texas	$101,557	38
22	Nicholas	Kentucky	$100,082	10
23	Mitchell	North Carolina	$99,971	18
24	Lee	Florida	$99,427	38,705
25	Jones	North Carolina	$99,172	119
26	Harrison	Indiana	$98,783	72
27	Sebastian	Arkansas	$95,753	134
28	McDowell	North Carolina	$95,543	69
29	Henderson	North Carolina	$94,047	282
30	Collier	Florida	$93,873	12,595
31	Dickson	Tennessee	$93,692	28
32	Muskogee	Oklahoma	$93,443	109
33	Greene	Tennessee	$92,869	13
34	Rutherford	North Carolina	$92,422	79
35	Cocke	Tennessee	$90,805	53
36	Carbon	Montana	$90,439	23
37	Hillsborough	Florida	$90,268	11,422
38	Fort Bend	Texas	$90,040	4,530
39	Nome	Alaska	$89,640	10
40	Citrus	Florida	$89,384	2,771
41	Habersham	Georgia	$89,171	16
42	Harris	Texas	$88,960	57,974
43	Chaves	New Mexico	$88,514	91
44	Fayette	Texas	$87,773	71
45	St. Clair	Alabama	$87,762	10
46	Pasco	Florida	$87,240	5,931
47	Atchison	Missouri	$86,753	21
48	San Saba	Texas	$86,429	12
49	Clay	Iowa	$86,267	64
50	Casey	Kentucky	$85,462	11
51	Orange	North Carolina	$85,373	297
52	Potter	Texas	$84,966	12
53	Humphreys	Tennessee	$83,196	158
54	Sarasota	Florida	$82,796	9,630
55	Anderson	Kentucky	$82,500	11
56	Manatee	Florida	$82,131	7,111
57	Lincoln	New Mexico	$80,798	178
58	Washington	Tennessee	$80,748	32
59	Allegan	Michigan	$80,551	12
60	Wise	Texas	$80,532	10
61	Taylor	Florida	$80,260	323
62	Mendocino	California	$80,090	15
63	Yancey	North Carolina	$79,455	88
64	Yankton	South Dakota	$79,451	16
65	Avery	North Carolina	$79,266	144
66	St. John the Baptist	Louisiana	$79,025	3,988
67	Spokane	Washington	$78,496	13
68	Jefferson	Texas	$78,057	10,608
69	Henry	Virginia	$77,467	15
70	Orange	Texas	$77,359	6,756
71	Union	South Dakota	$77,346	26
72	Levy	Florida	$77,040	474
73	Franklin	Kentucky	$76,811	186
74	Montgomery	Texas	$76,252	4,435
75	Christian	Missouri	$76,160	18
76	Garrard	Kentucky	$75,017	11
77	Ellis	Texas	$74,852	62
78	Stanly	North Carolina	$74,847	28
79	Santa Barbara	California	$74,550	400
80	Chambers	Texas	$74,008	1,124
81	Phelps	Missouri	$73,968	35
82	Gulf	Florida	$73,557	1,006
83	Woodford	Kentucky	$72,917	134
84	Galveston	Texas	$72,351	10,397
85	Riley	Kansas	$71,960	66
86	Ashe	North Carolina	$71,941	90
87	St. Louis	Missouri	$71,608	42
88	Tulsa	Oklahoma	$71,122	252
89	Wayne	Ohio	$70,319	22
90	Windsor	Vermont	$70,006	153
91	Waller	Texas	$69,681	354
92	Wharton	Texas	$69,138	563
93	Transylvania	North Carolina	$68,877	79
94	Lenoir	North Carolina	$68,475	436
95	Massac	Illinois	$67,378	14
96	Clay	Florida	$66,706	913
97	Tom Green	Texas	$66,170	81
98	Providence	Rhode Island	$66,002	160
99	Craven	North Carolina	$65,614	2,840
100	Bay	Florida	$65,499	2,804