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Floods in New Jersey

Property owners in New Jersey have filed 201,761 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $6.5 billion paid.

  • 201,761flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $6.5Bpaid on those claims
  • 2012most claims in one year, 75,650
  • 4thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in New Jersey per year 1978: 1,310 1979: 2,596 1980: 2,602 1981: 447 1982: 341 1983: 1,680 1984: 8,752 1985: 3,512 1986: 271 1987: 1,305 1988: 184 1989: 1,374 1990: 253 1991: 2,207 1992: 19,925 1993: 951 1994: 2,393 1995: 333 1996: 3,332 1997: 851 1998: 3,085 1999: 7,620 2000: 558 2001: 273 2002: 264 2003: 727 2004: 1,210 2005: 3,645 2006: 1,491 2007: 6,992 2008: 538 2009: 1,282 2010: 5,609 2011: 22,265 2012: 75,650 75,650 2013: 438 2014: 729 2015: 246 2016: 1,682 2017: 247 2018: 856 2019: 443 2020: 279 2021: 7,761 2022: 320 2023: 1,078 2024: 774 2025: 869 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Sep 1, 2021Flash FloodBurlington, Camden, Hunterdon16$220 million
Sep 1, 2021Flash FloodBergen, Essex, Hudson13—
Aug 27, 2011FloodAtlantic, Burlington, Camden7$797 million
Sep 16, 1999Flash FloodAtlantic, Burlington, Camden3$510 million
Sep 16, 1999Flash FloodBergen, Essex, Hudson3$35.4 million
Aug 12, 2000Flash FloodHunterdon, Morris, Sussex0$179 million

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in New Jersey
Ocean County52,884
Cape May County28,016
Atlantic County20,909
Monmouth County20,039
Bergen County14,477
Passaic County14,385
Morris County9,463
Union County7,525
Somerset County6,502
Essex County5,845
Middlesex County5,251
Hudson County5,198
Mercer County2,432
Burlington County2,180
Hunterdon County1,572
Camden County1,329
Warren County1,273
Salem County824
Cumberland County756
Gloucester County709
Sussex County192

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).