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Floods in Massachusetts

Property owners in Massachusetts have filed 35,063 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $439 million paid.

  • 35,063flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $439Mpaid on those claims
  • 1991most claims in one year, 7,153
  • 15thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Massachusetts per year 1978: 2,738 1979: 2,119 1980: 132 1981: 195 1982: 872 1983: 403 1984: 534 1985: 232 1986: 77 1987: 1,665 1988: 126 1989: 58 1990: 204 1991: 7,153 7,153 1992: 2,199 1993: 260 1994: 98 1995: 64 1996: 1,303 1997: 187 1998: 650 1999: 125 2000: 89 2001: 1,079 2002: 65 2003: 424 2004: 324 2005: 1,013 2006: 1,453 2007: 553 2008: 215 2009: 128 2010: 2,551 2011: 506 2012: 271 2013: 820 2014: 234 2015: 464 2016: 69 2017: 170 2018: 2,030 2019: 71 2020: 73 2021: 228 2022: 161 2023: 311 2024: 305 2025: 35 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Massachusetts
Plymouth County10,959
Essex County5,456
Suffolk County4,369
Middlesex County3,752
Norfolk County3,262
Barnstable County3,184
Bristol County1,558
Worcester County765
Nantucket County602
Berkshire County388
Hampden County279
Hampshire County215
Dukes County160
Franklin County114

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).