Hurricane Nicole
NFIP flood claims
- Florida is the only state listed, with 94.7% of the storm’s paid claims.
- By paid claims (1,172), Hurricane Nicole is the 9th lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 20th lowest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- The storm’s paid claims are spread over many counties: the first, Volusia County, FL, holds 28.4% of them, ahead of St. Johns County, FL and Flagler County, FL.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $25,018, is in line with 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 Nicole (AL172022, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 5 landfalls, 3 of them in or near a US county. The strongest of those came on 2022-11-10 at 07:45 UTC, as a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 65 kt: HURDAT2 position 27.6N 80.3W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Indian River County, FL.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-09 | 17:00 | 26.5N 77.1W | tropical storm | 60 | 985 | no US county |
| 2022-11-09 | 23:00 | 26.6N 78.2W | category 1 hurricane | 65 | 980 | no US county |
| 2022-11-10 | 07:45 | 27.6N 80.3W | category 1 hurricane | 65 | 980 | Indian River County, FL (3 km) |
| 2022-11-10 | 19:00 | 29.2N 83.0W | tropical storm | 40 | 989 | Levy County, FL |
| 2022-11-11 | 00:00 | 30.1N 84.0W | tropical storm | 35 | 992 | Jefferson County, FL |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Nicole (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Nicole was a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) that made landfall in the northwestern Bahamas and on the east-central coast of Florida.”
“It later made landfall as a tropical storm in the Florida Panhandle.”
NFIP paid building claims in Hurricane Nicole
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Hurricane Nicole, year of loss 2022; 1,172 paid claims; median $23,341, half of them between $7,573 (Q1) and $69,231 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $25,018, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1,172 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | 1,110 | $23,341 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Volusia County | 12127 | 333 |
| St. Johns County | 12109 | 255 |
| Flagler County | 12035 | 220 |
| Duval County | 12031 | 186 |
Questions about Hurricane Nicole flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Hurricane Nicole?
1,172 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Hurricane Nicole event label were paid (event: Hurricane Nicole, year of loss 2022), with a median of $23,341; half of them fall between $7,573 and $69,231. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Hurricane Nicole flood claims?
Volusia County, FL (333), St. Johns County, FL (255) and Flagler County, FL (220), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Hurricane Nicole flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$25,018 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $23,341 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Hurricane Nicole 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 Nicole" with yearOfLoss 2022; 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).