Tropical Storm Barry
NFIP flood claims
- Louisiana is the only state listed, with 100.0% of the storm’s paid claims.
- By paid claims (981), Tropical Storm Barry is the 6th lowest of 42 named storms covered here, and the 16th highest of 42 by median paid claim in 2024 dollars.
- Orleans Parish, LA alone accounts for 69.4% of the storm’s paid claims.
- In 2024 dollars (CPI-U), its median paid claim, $30,675, is 21.2% 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 Tropical Storm Barry (AL022019, retrieved 2026-10-12) records 1 landfall, in or near a US county. It came on 2019-07-13 at 15:00 UTC, as a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 65 kt: HURDAT2 position 29.6N 92.2W, rounded to 0.1°; county containing or nearest it: Vermilion Parish, LA.
| Date | Time (UTC) | Position | Strength | Wind (kt) | Pressure (mb) | County containing or nearest the position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-13 | 15:00 | 29.6N 92.2W | category 1 hurricane | 65 | 993 | Vermilion Parish, LA |
National Hurricane Center report
From the NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Tropical Storm Barry (retrieved 2026-10-12):
“Barry formed over the north-central Gulf of Mexico from a non-tropical origin and moved slowly west-northwestward across the northern Gulf.”
“The cyclone made landfall as a category 1 hurricane (on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale) over south-central Louisiana and produced a large area of heavy rainfall and flooding along and to the east of its center over the Mississippi Valley.”
NFIP paid building claims in Tropical Storm Barry
NFIP claims: amounts paid, not repair cost. Window: event: Tropical Storm Barry, year of loss 2019; 981 paid claims; median $25,000, half of them between $9,543 (Q1) and $50,000 (Q3), in nominal dollars. Median in 2024 dollars (CPI-U): $30,675, a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Paid claims by year of loss
| Year of loss | Paid claims |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 981 |
Paid claims by state
| State | Paid claims | Median paid |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 981 | $25,000 |
Counties with the most paid claims
| County | FIPS | Paid claims |
|---|---|---|
| Orleans Parish | 22071 | 681 |
Questions about Tropical Storm Barry flood claims
How many flood insurance claims were paid after Tropical Storm Barry?
981 NFIP building claims carrying FEMA’s Tropical Storm Barry event label were paid (event: Tropical Storm Barry, year of loss 2019), with a median of $25,000; half of them fall between $9,543 and $50,000. These are amounts paid, not repair cost.
Which counties had the most Tropical Storm Barry flood claims?
Orleans Parish, LA (681), across 1 state listed.
What is the median Tropical Storm Barry flood claim in 2024 dollars?
$30,675 once each claim is adjusted with the CPI-U, against $25,000 in nominal dollars: a monetary adjustment, not today’s cost of repair.
Related tools
Paid claims of Tropical Storm Barry 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 "Tropical Storm Barry" with yearOfLoss 2019; 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).