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North Carolina — Full year 2025

Source: WSIA stamping office report · Last scraped August 05, 2026 at 02:49 PM

North Carolina premium up 13.4% H1 2026 vs H1 2025

H1 2026 premium came in at $1.31B — up $155M from $1.16B in H1 2025. From the WSIA Midyear Report.

$1.31B
H1 2026 Premium
+13.4% vs H1 2025
$1.16B
H1 2025 Premium
Same period a year earlier
151,470
H1 2026 Items
+18.8% vs H1 2025
127,529
H1 2025 Items
Same period a year earlier

North Carolina's stamping office doesn't publish market data tables on its own website, so this page uses the annual WSIA stamping office report (compiled from data collected by the North Carolina Surplus Lines Stamping Office). Figures are full-year and update once a year — coarser than the monthly or year-to-date views available for states like California or Florida.

$2.29B
Premium
Full year 2025 · +12.1%
$2.05B
Premium, 2024
Prior full year
271,085
Items Filed
Full year 2025 · +11.4%
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Lines of Business

Premium by Line of Business — Full year 2025

Lines of Business vs Same Period Last Year

Line of BusinessPremiumSame Period Last YearChangeShareItems
Liability (Non-Professional) $1,060,151,324 $952,942,914 +11.3% 46.2% 109,854
Property $676,831,036 $584,276,533 +15.8% 29.5% 35,865
Residential, Homeowners and Other Personal Property $143,961,586 $126,272,544 +14.0% 6.3% 77,640
Professional Liability $138,399,104 $126,238,717 +9.6% 6.0% 6,646
Other $69,007,652 $69,184,050 -0.3% 3.0% 10,774
Auto Liability $67,989,592 $54,882,099 +23.9% 3.0% 3,165
Multi-Peril $59,986,324 $62,193,241 -3.5% 2.6% 10,283
Auto Physical Damage $38,655,494 $27,830,070 +38.9% 1.7% 4,524
Inland Marine $33,263,378 $35,915,937 -7.4% 1.5% 11,272
Disability/A&H $5,460,431 $6,811,414 -19.8% 0.2% 1,062

The ten-year view

North Carolina in the decade of stamping-office records, 2016–2025 · WSIA stamping office reports, 2016–2025

$2.29B
2025 full-year premium
2.5% of national premium
3.7×
Growth since 2016
+17.8%
5-yr growth per year
vs +16.7% nationally
+12.1%
2025 growth
H1 2026: +13.4% vs H1 2025
The decade
North Carolina surplus lines premium has grown from $626M in 2016 to $2.3B in 2025 — 3.7× in 9 years. Growth peaked at 35% in 2021.
Where it is in the cycle
The state is cooling: after compounding at 17.8% a year for five years, it grew just +12.1% in 2025. The freshest signal: H1 2026 premium is up 13% on the first half of 2025.
Against the national market
North Carolina has been outgrowing the national market — compounding at 18% a year over five years against 17% for all fifteen states combined — and its share of national premium has held near 2.5%.

North Carolina premium, 2016–2025

Full-year premium (bars, left axis) with year-over-year growth (line, right axis). Source: WSIA stamping office reports, 2016–2025.

North Carolina vs the national market

Year-over-year premium growth for North Carolina against all fifteen stamping-office states combined. When the state line runs above the national line, North Carolina is outgrowing the market.