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Flood Insurance in Indian River County, Florida

Your lender set the requirement. Nobody set the price.

Hurricane Milton alone led to 68 NFIP flood claims in Indian River County and $4,178,545 in payouts. That one storm is 41% of all the flood insurance money paid in Indian River County in the past 10 years.[1]

Indian River County at a glance

Flood policies in force in Indian River County
18,356[2]
Flood claims paid in 10 years
$10.2[3]million
CRS discount, unincorporated Indian River County
25%[4]
First FEMA flood map
1978[5]

What floods have cost Indian River County

296[3]

Flood claims filed in Indian River County in the last 10 years.

Flood claims paid in Indian River County, by storm[3]

  1. Hurricane Milton 2024, 68 claims $4.2M
  2. Hurricane Irma 2017, 116 claims $3.9M
  3. Hurricane Nicole 2022, 8 claims $79,420
  4. Nor'easter 2025, 2 claims $63,744
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Flood zones in Indian River County

Same flood zone, very different prices. Your zone decides if a lender requires flood insurance. The price depends on the home itself.

Map of Florida with Indian River County shaded
Indian River County, Florida[6]

What sets the price in Indian River County

Same flood zone, very different prices in Indian River County. Here is why.

Your zone decides whether the lender requires flood insurance. It does not set your NFIP price. Since 2021, FEMA prices each policy from the building and its spot.[7]

  1. How often the spot floods. FEMA looks at how often flooding reaches the building's location.
  2. How close it sits to water. The distance from the building to a flooding source.
  3. The building itself. How high the first floor sits and what it would cost to rebuild.
Unincorporated Indian River County: Community Rating System Class 5, 25% discount, on a scale that tops out at 45%. 0% 45%
Unincorporated Indian River County earns 25% off NFIP flood premiums in the high-risk zone.[4]

Find out what your Indian River County address needs

Your flood zone and your community's discount, in one check.

Questions about flood insurance in Indian River County

Is flood insurance required in Indian River County?

If your home is in a Special Flood Hazard Area and you have a federally backed mortgage, yes. Homeowners insurance does not cover flood. [8]

Is there a waiting period for flood insurance in Indian River County?

NFIP rules apply the same in Indian River County: 30 days for a standard NFIP purchase. No wait when the policy is bought as part of getting, refinancing, increasing, extending or renewing a loan on the home. One day when a new flood map just placed the home in a high-risk zone (within 13 months of the map date). [9]

What does flood insurance cost in Indian River County?

The county average is $940 per year across 18,356 active NFIP policies (FEMA, July 2026). [2]

How much did Hurricane Milton cost Indian River County?

68 NFIP claims and $4.2 million paid in Indian River County, per federal claim records. [3]

Your flood toolkit for Indian River County

  • Emergency management

    Emergency Management[10]

    Call (772) 226-3900

  • Flood zone help

    Indian River County floodplain management[11]

    Call (772) 226-1237

  • Your evacuation zone

    Look up your Indian River County evacuation zone[12]

    Open the county's page

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Sources and dates

  1. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2. Indian River County NFIP flood claims. Read November 4, 2026.
  2. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Policies v2. Indian River County NFIP policies in force. Read July 4, 2026.
  3. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2. Indian River County NFIP claims, last 10 years. Read November 4, 2026.
  4. FEMA CRS Eligible Communities, October 1, 2026 effective date (PDF). Indian River County Community Rating System class. Read October 24, 2026.
  5. FEMA NFIP Community Status Book, Florida. Indian River County first flood map. Read November 4, 2026.
  6. U.S. Census Bureau, cartographic boundary files, 2017 edition, 1:10,000,000 (as redistributed in us-atlas 3.0.1). County and state outlines on the map. Read October 27, 2026.
  7. FEMA, Understanding Risk Rating 2.0 fact sheet, July 2025. The rating variables: frequency of flooding, proximity to flood sources, first floor height and the cost to rebuild; Risk Rating 2.0 since October 1, 2021. Read October 26, 2026.
  8. 42 U.S.C. 4012a, Flood insurance purchase requirements. A federally regulated lender requires flood insurance on a building in a Special Flood Hazard Area. Read October 26, 2026.
  9. 44 CFR 61.11, Effective date and time of coverage. The 30-day wait, the loan exception and the map revision exception. Read October 29, 2026.
  10. indianriver.gov. Emergency Management. Read November 4, 2026.
  11. indianriver.gov. Indian River County floodplain management. Read November 4, 2026.
  12. indianriver.gov. Indian River County evacuation zone lookup. Read November 1, 2026.
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