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Floods in Nevada

Property owners in Nevada have filed 1,944 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $47.4 million paid.

  • 1,944flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $47.4Mpaid on those claims
  • 1997most claims in one year, 467
  • 45thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Nevada per year 1978: 11 1979: 8 1980: 25 1981: 8 1982: 21 1983: 43 1984: 109 1985: 13 1986: 86 1987: 6 1988: 1 1989: 2 1990: 34 1991: 7 1992: 13 1993: 15 1994: 4 1995: 30 1996: 23 1997: 467 467 1998: 47 1999: 127 2000: 10 2001: 11 2002: 4 2003: 36 2004: 13 2005: 197 2006: 32 2007: 9 2008: 10 2009: 6 2010: 8 2011: 5 2012: 58 2013: 24 2014: 71 2015: 31 2016: 15 2017: 167 2018: 6 2019: 7 2020: 2 2021: 44 2022: 13 2023: 38 2024: 6 2025: 17 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Jan 1, 1997FloodChurchill, Douglas, Lyon10—

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Nevada
Washoe County754
Clark County626
Douglas County226
Nye County136
Carson City91
Elko County31
Lyon County24
Humboldt County16
Storey County10
White Pine County8
Churchill County7
Lincoln County6
Pershing County4
Lander County3
Eureka County1
Mineral County1

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).