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Flood history / Hawaii

Hawaii
flood claim history.

ZIP codes20100+ paid claims each
Paid claims5,0291978–2026
Total paid$151.1MNational Flood Insurance Program
Outside high-risk zone28%of claims with a rated zone

Across the 20 Hawaii ZIP codes with at least 100 paid claims on file, the National Flood Insurance Program has paid $151.1M on 5,029 claims between 1978 and 2026. ZIP 96756 in Kauai County carries the most at 472, 9.4% of the state total shown here.

The events driving the most paid claims across these ZIPs are Hurricane Iniki (843 claims), 2026-03-KonaStorm (353 claims) and Hurricane Lane (19 claims).

27.7% of the claims here that record a rated flood zone were on properties outside the mapped high-risk area — the zone where flood insurance is optional and most owners go without it.

Claim volume tracks how many properties carried flood insurance as much as how often the water came up. A ZIP with a long insured history will out-file a comparable one where few owners were covered, so read each ZIP's own record rather than ranking them against each other.

Every Hawaii ZIP code on file

ZIPCountyPaid claimsTotal paidHeaviest year
96756 Kauai County 472 $27.5M 1992 326
96740 Hawaii County 416 $16.3M 2011 94
96821 Honolulu County 414 $23.0M 2018 201
96714 Kauai County 395 $7.4M 2018 159
96753 Maui County 382 $20.8M 2026 120
96734 Honolulu County 369 $7.2M 1987 70
96712 Honolulu County 316 $6.7M 2026 50
96746 Kauai County 239 $4.2M 1992 106
96792 Honolulu County 235 $5.2M 1992 76
96762 Honolulu County 223 $7.2M 2026 56
96720 Hawaii County 214 $3.3M 2000 68
96761 Maui County 201 $2.7M 1993 23
96717 Honolulu County 199 $2.8M 2006 25
96816 Honolulu County 162 $2.9M 2006 30
96815 Honolulu County 161 $1.8M 1992 30
96730 Honolulu County 141 $1.1M 2006 32
96819 Honolulu County 135 $5.2M 2016 35
96791 Honolulu County 130 $3.0M 2026 48
96744 Honolulu County 117 $1.6M 2026 21
96793 Maui County 108 $1.2M 1992 50

Only ZIP codes with at least 100 paid claims on file appear here. A ZIP missing from this table has a shorter record, not a clean one.