Hurricane Beryl
NFIP flood claims
- Texas is the only state listed, with 99.1% of the storm’s paid claims.
- By paid claims (1,522), Hurricane Beryl is the 11th lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 10th lowest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- Harris County, TX alone accounts for 50.5% of the storm’s paid claims, followed by Galveston County, TX and Brazoria County, TX.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $17,531, is 30.8% below the middle value of the storm medians ($25,316).
Source: FEMA, OpenFEMA NfipClaims (v3, data as of 2026-09-09, retrieved 2026-10-12); CPI-U, U.S. city average, all items (CUUR0000SA0), annual average (BLS Public Data API v1, annual averages 2005-2025, retrieved 2026-10-12). Not an official federal report.
Landfall and storm report
The National Hurricane Center’s HURDAT2 best track of Hurricane Beryl (AL022024, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 3 landfalls, 1 of them in or near a US county. It came on 2024-07-08 at 08:40 UTC, as a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 80 kt: HURDAT2 position 28.6N 96.0W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Matagorda County, TX.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-01 | 15:20 | 12.5N 61.5W | category 4 hurricane | 120 | 950 | no US county |
| 2024-07-05 | 11:00 | 20.3N 87.4W | category 1 hurricane | 80 | 977 | no US county |
| 2024-07-08 | 08:40 | 28.6N 96.0W | category 1 hurricane | 80 | 978 | Matagorda County, TX |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Beryl (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Beryl was an aclimatologically early Cabo Verde hurricane, becoming the earliest category 5 (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) hurricane of record in the Atlantic basin.”
“It passed through the Windward Islands as a major hurricane causing severe damage, and it later made landfall as a hurricane on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and then the coast of Texas.”
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Beryl
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Beryl, year of loss 2024; 1,522 paid claims; median $17,531, half of them between $4,944 (Q1) and $43,346 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $17,531, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,522 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,509 | $17,321 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Harris County | 48201 | 768 |
| Galveston County | 48167 | 386 |
| Brazoria County | 48039 | 178 |
Questions about Hurricane Beryl flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Beryl?
1,522 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Beryl event label were paid (event: Hurricane Beryl, year of loss 2024), with a median of $17,531; half of them fall between $4,944 and $43,346. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Beryl flood claims?
Harris County, TX (768), Galveston County, TX (386) and Brazoria County, TX (178), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Hurricane Beryl flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$17,531 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $17,531 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Beryl are not repair estimates: to estimate the cleanup of a flooded basement from published cost-guide rates, use the basement water damage repair cost calculator; for water removal and drying after any water loss, the water damage and mitigation calculator.
To set these figures against every State on one claims window, amounts paid, not repair cost: NFIP paid building claims by state.
Before using these figures
A storm total counts NFIP-insured buildings with a paid claim, not all the damage of the storm. Method and limits.
Source and notice
- Storm = floodEvent "Hurricane Beryl" with yearOfLoss 2024; window of the extraction: yearOfLoss 2005-2025.
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).