Floods in Washington

Property owners in Washington have filed 15,931 federal flood insurance claims since 1978, with $367 million paid.

  • 15,931flood insurance claims since 1978
  • $367Mpaid on those claims
  • 1996most claims in one year, 1,915
  • 24thamong the states for claims
2025
  • Floods on record, by year

Over time

Flood insurance claims in Washington per year 1978: 29 1979: 169 1980: 471 1981: 119 1982: 203 1983: 115 1984: 81 1985: 5 1986: 349 1987: 29 1988: 6 1989: 75 1990: 1,586 1991: 84 1992: 20 1993: 29 1994: 69 1995: 881 1996: 1,915 1,915 1997: 409 1998: 143 1999: 195 2000: 28 2001: 75 2002: 45 2003: 424 2004: 49 2005: 35 2006: 1,353 2007: 1,060 2008: 125 2009: 1,756 2010: 221 2011: 159 2012: 174 2013: 59 2014: 109 2015: 661 2016: 148 2017: 112 2018: 70 2019: 57 2020: 254 2021: 479 2022: 513 2023: 66 2024: 30 2025: 854 1978198319881993199820032008201320182023

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).