Floods in South Dakota

Property owners in South Dakota have filed 3,965 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $62.3 million paid.

  • 3,965flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $62.3Mpaid on those claims
  • 2011most claims in one year, 927
  • 42ndamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in South Dakota per year 1978: 122 1979: 58 1980: 13 1982: 34 1983: 24 1984: 60 1985: 2 1986: 70 1987: 7 1988: 1 1989: 1 1990: 1 1991: 8 1992: 7 1993: 120 1994: 18 1995: 33 1996: 39 1997: 639 1998: 44 1999: 122 2000: 12 2001: 138 2002: 5 2003: 11 2004: 8 2005: 3 2006: 5 2007: 208 2008: 50 2009: 19 2010: 360 2011: 927 927 2012: 47 2013: 14 2014: 58 2015: 54 2016: 6 2017: 3 2018: 19 2019: 484 2020: 17 2021: 1 2022: 3 2023: 11 2024: 73 2025: 4 1978198419891994199920042009201420192024

Every county

Counties with any recorded events, highest first.

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).