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Flood Insurance in Seminole County, Florida

Your lender set the requirement. Nobody set the price.

Hurricane Ian alone led to 583 NFIP flood claims in Seminole County and $41,111,157 in payouts. That one storm is 84% of all the flood insurance money paid in Seminole County in the past 10 years.[1]

Seminole County at a glance

Flood policies in force in Seminole County
6,857[2]
Flood claims paid in 10 years
$49.2[3]million
CRS discount, unincorporated Seminole County
20%[4]
First FEMA flood map
1981[5]

What floods have cost Seminole County

951[3]

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

Flood claims paid in Seminole County, by storm[3]

  1. Hurricane Ian 2022, 583 claims $41.1M
  2. Hurricane Irma 2017, 200 claims $5.5M
  3. Hurricane Milton 2024, 65 claims $1.6M
  4. Tropical Storm Nicholas 2021, 4 claims $85,808
  5. Hurricane Nicole 2022, 14 claims $39,950
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Flood zones in Seminole 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 Seminole County shaded
Seminole County, Florida[6]

What sets the price in Seminole County

Same flood zone, very different prices in Seminole 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 Seminole County: Community Rating System Class 6, 20% discount, on a scale that tops out at 45%. 0% 45%
Unincorporated Seminole County earns 20% off NFIP flood premiums in the high-risk zone.[4]

Find out what your Seminole County address needs

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

Questions about flood insurance in Seminole County

Is flood insurance required in Seminole 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 Seminole County?

NFIP rules apply the same in Seminole 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 Seminole County?

The county average is $647 per year across 6,857 active NFIP policies (FEMA, July 2026). [2]

How much did Hurricane Ian cost Seminole County?

583 NFIP claims and $41.1 million paid in Seminole County, per federal claim records. [3]

Your flood toolkit for Seminole County

  • Flood zone help

    Seminole County floodplain management[10]

    Call (407) 665-7335

  • Your evacuation zone

    Look up your Seminole County evacuation zone[10]

    Open the county's page

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Sources and dates

  1. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2. Seminole County NFIP flood claims. Read November 4, 2026.
  2. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Policies v2. Seminole County NFIP policies in force. Read July 4, 2026.
  3. FEMA OpenFEMA, FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims v2. Seminole County NFIP claims, last 10 years. Read November 4, 2026.
  4. FEMA CRS Eligible Communities, October 1, 2026 effective date (PDF). Seminole County Community Rating System class. Read October 24, 2026.
  5. FEMA NFIP Community Status Book, Florida. Seminole 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. seminolecountyfl.gov. Seminole County floodplain management. Read November 4, 2026.
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