Flood claims exceed $570m as clean-up goes on Australia's insurers are continuing to tally the cost of this summer's floods and fires, with the insured losses now exceeding $550 million in Queensland alone. So far some 53,711 claims have been lodged in Queensland for $553 million, the Insurance Council of Australia said. NSW, which copped less of a deluge and had better flood protection in place in many towns, has seen about 8000 claims lodged for $20 million in losses, the council said. Earlier this week, Brisbane-based Suncorp said floods in the two states would cost it between $200 million and $220 million in claims - taking up a large chunk of the $520 million the insurer had set as a provision for natural disaster claims for the current financial year. Suncorp's first-half claims were $147 million. Fire damage also continues to rise even as fire crews battle blazes in Victoria and Tasmania, two states which remain tinder-dry with another month or so of summer left. Bushfire claims in Tasmania now total 1900 for $89 million, the council said. Insured losses from blazes in NSW, which has also been hit by bushfires, total about $12 million for some 1500 claims. Figures for Victoria's fire losses are not yet available because the insurance industry is yet to declare a catastrophe yet for that region.