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Flood Insurance in Monroe County, Florida

Your lender set the requirement. Nobody set the price.

Hurricane Irma paid $290.2 million in flood insurance claims in Monroe County, across 8,002 claims. That one event was 89% of everything flood insurance paid there in the past decade.[1]

Monroe County at a glance

Flood policies in force in Monroe County
29,474[2]
Flood claims paid in 10 years
$324.5[1]million
CRS discount, unincorporated Monroe County
35%[3]
First FEMA flood map
1970[4]

What floods have cost Monroe County

8,925[1]

Flood claims filed in Monroe County in the last 10 years.

Flood claims paid in Monroe County, by storm[1]

  1. Hurricane Irma 2017, 8,002 claims $290.2M
  2. Hurricane Ian 2022, 560 claims $28.5M
  3. Hurricane Sally 2020, 54 claims $1M
  4. Hurricane Helene 2024, 12 claims $139,176
  5. Hurricane Eta 2020, 11 claims $68,113
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Flood zones in Monroe 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 Monroe County shaded
Monroe County, Florida[5]

What sets the price in Monroe County

Same flood zone, very different prices in Monroe 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.[6]

  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 Monroe County: Community Rating System Class 3, 35% discount, on a scale that tops out at 45%. 0% 45%
Unincorporated Monroe County earns 35% off NFIP flood premiums in the high-risk zone.[3]

Find out what your Monroe County address needs

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

Questions about flood insurance in Monroe County

Is flood insurance required in Monroe 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. [7]

Is there a waiting period for flood insurance in Monroe County?

NFIP rules apply the same in Monroe 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). [8]

What does flood insurance cost in Monroe County?

The county average is $2,056 per year across 29,474 active NFIP policies (FEMA, July 2026). [2]

How much did Hurricane Irma cost Monroe County?

8,002 NFIP claims and $290.2 million paid in Monroe County, per federal claim records. [1]

Your flood toolkit for Monroe County

  • Emergency management

    Monroe County Emergency Management[9]

    Call (305) 294-4641

  • Flood zone help

    Monroe County floodplain management[10]

    Call (305) 292-4491

  • Your evacuation zone

    Look up your Monroe County evacuation zone[11]

    Open the county's page

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Sources and dates

  1. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2. Monroe County NFIP claims, last 10 years. Read November 5, 2026.
  2. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Policies v2. Monroe County NFIP policies in force. Read July 4, 2026.
  3. FEMA CRS Eligible Communities, October 1, 2026 effective date (PDF). Monroe County Community Rating System class. Read November 4, 2026.
  4. FEMA NFIP Community Status Book, Florida. Monroe County first flood map. Read November 5, 2026.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. monroecounty-fl.gov. Monroe County Emergency Management. Read November 5, 2026.
  10. monroecounty-fl.gov. Monroe County floodplain management. Read November 5, 2026.
  11. monroecounty-fl.gov. Monroe County evacuation zone lookup. Read November 1, 2026.
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