Hurricane Dolly
NFIP flood claims
- Texas is the only state listed, with 100.0% of the storm’s paid claims.
- By paid claims (1,171), Hurricane Dolly is the 8th lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 4th lowest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- Cameron County, TX alone accounts for 79.7% of the storm’s paid claims, followed by Hidalgo County, TX.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $12,821, is 49.4% 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 Dolly (AL042008, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 3 landfalls, 2 of them in or near a US county. The strongest of those came on 2008-07-23 at 18:20 UTC, as a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75 kt: HURDAT2 position 26.4N 97.2W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Cameron County, TX.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-21 | 05:30 | 20.8N 87.0W | tropical storm | 45 | 1,007 | no US county |
| 2008-07-23 | 18:20 | 26.4N 97.2W | category 1 hurricane | 75 | 967 | Cameron County, TX (2.1 km) |
| 2008-07-23 | 20:00 | 26.4N 97.4W | category 1 hurricane | 70 | 967 | Willacy County, TX |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Dolly (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Dolly had its origins in a tropical wave that crossed the west coast of Africa early on 11 July.”
“The system moved rapidly westward and generated a surface low pressure area about 1400 n mi east of the southern Windward Islands on 13 July.”
Both quotes come from the report’s synoptic history.
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Dolly
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Dolly, year of loss 2008; 1,171 paid claims; median $8,800, half of them between $2,854 (Q1) and $23,447 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $12,821, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,171 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,171 | $8,800 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron County | 48061 | 933 |
| Hidalgo County | 48215 | 189 |
Questions about Hurricane Dolly flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Dolly?
1,171 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Dolly event label were paid (event: Hurricane Dolly, year of loss 2008), with a median of $8,800; half of them fall between $2,854 and $23,447. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Dolly flood claims?
Cameron County, TX (933) and Hidalgo County, TX (189), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Hurricane Dolly flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$12,821 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $8,800 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Dolly 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 Dolly" with yearOfLoss 2008; 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).