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Floods in New York

Property owners in New York have filed 174,558 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $5.7 billion paid.

  • 174,558flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $5.7Bpaid on those claims
  • 2012most claims in one year, 57,927
  • 5thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in New York per year 1978: 4,110 1979: 10,022 1980: 7,182 1981: 2,444 1982: 2,019 1983: 2,646 1984: 3,801 1985: 3,509 1986: 752 1987: 1,014 1988: 259 1989: 655 1990: 426 1991: 3,996 1992: 9,288 1993: 2,666 1994: 769 1995: 289 1996: 3,999 1997: 209 1998: 1,099 1999: 1,260 2000: 512 2001: 334 2002: 291 2003: 621 2004: 1,034 2005: 5,710 2006: 2,769 2007: 3,080 2008: 530 2009: 608 2010: 3,081 2011: 20,605 2012: 57,927 57,927 2013: 1,007 2014: 1,558 2015: 324 2016: 225 2017: 876 2018: 882 2019: 625 2020: 287 2021: 4,057 2022: 1,354 2023: 2,340 2024: 928 2025: 298 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

The deadliest floods since 1996

Notable events
Oct 28, 2012Coastal FloodBronx, Kings, Nassau39—
Sep 1, 2021Flash FloodBronx, Kings, Nassau18$471 million
Jan 19, 1996Flash FloodDelaware6$9.3 million
Jun 13, 2003Flash FloodBroome5$100,000
Jun 19, 2007Flash FloodBroome, Cayuga, Chenango4$30.3 million
Aug 28, 2011Flash FloodAlbany, Columbia, Dutchess4—
Aug 9, 2009Flash FloodCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie1$90.9 million

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in New York
Nassau County51,523
Suffolk County33,936
Richmond County19,422
Queens County14,948
Westchester County12,259
Kings County6,319
Rockland County3,480
Broome County3,103
Erie County2,483
Orange County2,032
Bronx County1,945
Chautauqua County1,803
Tioga County1,558
New York County1,498
Delaware County1,291
Ulster County1,279
Oneida County1,069
Onondaga County970
Sullivan County945
Monroe County828
Dutchess County765
Schoharie County666
Chenango County632
Greene County587
Saratoga County581
Cattaraugus County493
Rensselaer County475
Otsego County463
Herkimer County422
Albany County377
Steuben County375
Putnam County373
Essex County369
Cortland County358
Schenectady County357
Madison County313
Chemung County304
Clinton County296
Tompkins County290
Montgomery County288
Cayuga County265
Ontario County263
Jefferson County250
Columbia County245
Oswego County221
Wayne County209
Allegany County193
Niagara County184
Yates County149
Genesee County137
Washington County136
Warren County116
Fulton County116
Wyoming County113
Seneca County108
Livingston County101
St. Lawrence County95
Franklin County40
Orleans County39
Lewis County38
Hamilton County35
Schuyler County30

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).