Hurricane Ida
NFIP flood claims
- Median paid claims of the storm run from $12,501 in Mississippi to $43,135 in Louisiana.
- By paid claims (21,652), Hurricane Ida is the 9th highest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 17th highest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- Louisiana holds 46.0% of the storm’s paid claims and New Jersey 28.4%; 6 states are listed.
- The storm’s paid claims are spread over many counties: the first, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA, holds 14.9% of them, ahead of Jefferson Parish, LA and St. Tammany Parish, LA.
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 Ida (AL092021, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 3 landfalls, 1 of them in or near a US county. It came on 2021-08-29 at 16:55 UTC, as a category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 130 kt: HURDAT2 position 29.1N 90.2W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Lafourche Parish, LA.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-27 | 18:00 | 21.5N 82.6W | category 1 hurricane | 70 | 987 | no US county |
| 2021-08-27 | 23:25 | 22.4N 83.2W | category 1 hurricane | 70 | 988 | no US county |
| 2021-08-29 | 16:55 | 29.1N 90.2W | category 4 hurricane | 130 | 931 | Lafourche Parish, LA |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Ida (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Ida was a category 4 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that caused catastrophic damage when it made landfall in southeastern Louisiana.”
“It also made landfall in western Cuba as a category 1 hurricane.”
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Ida
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Ida, year of loss 2021; 21,652 paid claims; median $26,052, half of them between $9,491 (Q1) and $72,148 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $30,159, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $30,159, is 19.1% above the middle value of the storm medians ($25,316).
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 21,652 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 9,955 | $43,135 |
| New Jersey | 6,151 | $22,231 |
| New York | 2,807 | $21,547 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,552 | $22,515 |
| Connecticut | 589 | $17,222 |
| Mississippi | 325 | $12,501 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| St. John the Baptist Parish | 22095 | 3,228 |
| Jefferson Parish | 22051 | 1,892 |
| St. Tammany Parish | 22103 | 1,610 |
| Westchester County | 36119 | 1,540 |
| Bergen County | 34003 | 1,515 |
| Union County | 34039 | 1,229 |
| Tangipahoa Parish | 22105 | 844 |
| Orleans Parish | 22071 | 833 |
| Somerset County | 34035 | 762 |
| Essex County | 34013 | 716 |
Questions about Hurricane Ida flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Ida?
21,652 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Ida event label were paid (event: Hurricane Ida, year of loss 2021), with a median of $26,052; half of them fall between $9,491 and $72,148. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Ida flood claims?
St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (3,228), Jefferson Parish, LA (1,892) and St. Tammany Parish, LA (1,610), across 6 states listed.
What is the median Hurricane Ida flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$30,159 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $26,052 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Ida 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 Ida" with yearOfLoss 2021; 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).