Hurricane Hanna
NFIP flood claims
- Texas is the only state listed, with 100.0% of the storm’s paid claims.
- By paid claims (763), Hurricane Hanna is the 3rd lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 14th lowest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- Hidalgo County, TX alone accounts for 79.6% of the storm’s paid claims.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $20,345, is 19.6% 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 Hanna (AL082020, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 2 landfalls, 2 of them in or near a US county. The strongest of those came on 2020-07-25 at 22:00 UTC, as a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 80 kt: HURDAT2 position 26.8N 97.3W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Kenedy County, TX.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-25 | 22:00 | 26.8N 97.3W | category 1 hurricane | 80 | 973 | Kenedy County, TX (4.8 km) |
| 2020-07-25 | 23:15 | 26.7N 97.5W | category 1 hurricane | 80 | 974 | Kenedy County, TX |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Hanna (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Hanna was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall on Padre Island, Texas.”
“Hanna was the first July hurricane to make landfall in Texas since Hurricane Dolly in July 2008.”
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Hanna
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Hanna, year of loss 2020; 763 paid claims; median $16,786, half of them between $4,863 (Q1) and $41,921 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $20,345, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 763 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 763 | $16,786 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Hidalgo County | 48215 | 607 |
Questions about Hurricane Hanna flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Hanna?
763 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Hanna event label were paid (event: Hurricane Hanna, year of loss 2020), with a median of $16,786; half of them fall between $4,863 and $41,921. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Hanna flood claims?
Hidalgo County, TX (607), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Hurricane Hanna flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$20,345 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $16,786 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Hanna 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 Hanna" with yearOfLoss 2020; window of the extraction: yearOfLoss 2005-2025.
- 80 other paid claims carry the same floodEvent label in other years of loss (another storm or a date error), not counted here.
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