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Floods in Rhode Island

Property owners in Rhode Island have filed 6,960 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $139 million paid.

  • 6,960flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $139Mpaid on those claims
  • 2010most claims in one year, 1,782
  • 33rdamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Rhode Island per year 1978: 343 1979: 214 1980: 51 1981: 10 1982: 214 1983: 156 1984: 68 1985: 137 1986: 28 1987: 54 1988: 10 1989: 8 1990: 10 1991: 720 1992: 106 1993: 70 1994: 45 1995: 7 1996: 23 1997: 33 1998: 149 1999: 39 2000: 15 2001: 99 2002: 9 2003: 21 2004: 13 2005: 414 2006: 63 2007: 119 2008: 55 2009: 34 2010: 1,782 1,782 2011: 102 2012: 1,090 2013: 40 2014: 43 2015: 25 2016: 3 2017: 8 2018: 55 2019: 10 2020: 16 2021: 74 2022: 58 2023: 137 2024: 166 2025: 7 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

Floods by county in Rhode Island
Washington County2,399
Providence County1,626
Kent County1,300
Bristol County830
Newport County805

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).