Hurricane Delta
NFIP flood claims
- Louisiana is the only state listed, with 100.0% of the storm’s paid claims.
- Calcasieu Parish, LA alone accounts for 66.1% of the storm’s paid claims, followed by Rapides Parish, LA.
- By paid claims (1,706), Hurricane Delta is the 13th lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 15th highest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $31,370, is 23.9% above 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 Delta (AL262020, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 2 landfalls, 1 of them in or near a US county. It came on 2020-10-09 at 23:00 UTC, as a category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 kt: HURDAT2 position 29.8N 93.1W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Cameron Parish, LA.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-07 | 10:30 | 20.8N 86.9W | category 2 hurricane | 90 | 971 | no US county |
| 2020-10-09 | 23:00 | 29.8N 93.1W | category 2 hurricane | 85 | 970 | Cameron Parish, LA |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Delta (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Delta was a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.”
“It made two landfalls, both at category 2 intensity, on the Yucatan Peninsula and in southwestern Louisiana.”
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Delta
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Delta, year of loss 2020; 1,706 paid claims; median $25,882, half of them between $4,336 (Q1) and $56,173 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $31,370, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,706 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 1,706 | $25,882 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Calcasieu Parish | 22019 | 1,127 |
| Rapides Parish | 22079 | 244 |
Questions about Hurricane Delta flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Delta?
1,706 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Delta event label were paid (event: Hurricane Delta, year of loss 2020), with a median of $25,882; half of them fall between $4,336 and $56,173. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Delta flood claims?
Calcasieu Parish, LA (1,127) and Rapides Parish, LA (244), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Hurricane Delta flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$31,370 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $25,882 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Delta 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 Delta" with yearOfLoss 2020; 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).