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Floods in Connecticut

Property owners in Connecticut have filed 29,315 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $552 million paid.

  • 29,315flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $552Mpaid on those claims
  • 2012most claims in one year, 6,299
  • 16thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Connecticut per year 1978: 764 1979: 995 1980: 1,270 1981: 38 1982: 1,850 1983: 390 1984: 766 1985: 859 1986: 43 1987: 204 1988: 54 1989: 252 1990: 63 1991: 448 1992: 2,761 1993: 77 1994: 135 1995: 143 1996: 1,060 1997: 35 1998: 106 1999: 267 2000: 186 2001: 129 2002: 43 2003: 90 2004: 112 2005: 602 2006: 367 2007: 1,307 2008: 148 2009: 88 2010: 938 2011: 4,175 2012: 6,299 6,299 2013: 69 2014: 75 2015: 22 2016: 25 2017: 51 2018: 425 2019: 60 2020: 37 2021: 963 2022: 67 2023: 129 2024: 244 2025: 11 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Connecticut
Fairfield County12,667
New Haven County9,609
Middlesex County2,242
New London County2,155
Hartford County1,922
Litchfield County479
Tolland County167
Windham County74

This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency’s website(s).