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Flood history / Mississippi

Mississippi
flood claim history.

ZIP codes71100+ paid claims each
Paid claims56,2901978–2026
Total paid$3.0BNational Flood Insurance Program
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Across the 71 Mississippi ZIP codes with at least 100 paid claims on file, the National Flood Insurance Program has paid $3.0B on 56,290 claims between 1978 and 2026. ZIP 39520 in Hancock County carries the most at 6,050, 10.7% of the state total shown here.

The events driving the most paid claims across these ZIPs are Hurricane Katrina (18,740 claims), Hurricane Georges (2,864 claims) and Tropical Storm Isidore (1,241 claims).

25.8% 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 Mississippi ZIP code on file

ZIPCountyPaid claimsTotal paidHeaviest year
39520 Hancock County 6,050 $391.9M 2005 3,013
39571 Harrison County 4,603 $481.8M 2005 2,861
39564 Jackson County 2,985 $241.9M 2005 1,687
39532 Harrison County 2,428 $180.4M 2005 1,376
39560 Harrison County 2,086 $157.9M 2005 1,094
39211 Hinds County 1,896 $40.0M 1983 853
39180 Warren County 1,874 $24.1M 1983 261
39501 Harrison County 1,873 $118.9M 2005 623
39567 Jackson County 1,821 $138.8M 2005 937
39530 Harrison County 1,612 $144.9M 2005 1,026
39576 Hancock County 1,593 $191.7M 2005 1,254
39507 Harrison County 1,574 $148.3M 2005 867
39581 Jackson County 1,553 $89.4M 2005 694
39563 Jackson County 1,330 $38.5M 2005 328
39553 Jackson County 1,264 $76.8M 2005 688
39503 Harrison County 1,216 $42.3M 2005 350
39401 Forrest County 1,144 $6.9M 1983 414
38703 Washington County 1,020 $20.9M 2008 288
39669 Wilkinson County 985 $15.9M 2011 97
39562 Jackson County 939 $29.0M 2005 292
39531 Harrison County 749 $69.7M 2005 363
39046 Madison County 735 $5.4M 1983 163
39556 Hancock County 734 $36.4M 2005 268
39540 Harrison County 690 $43.0M 2005 363
38701 Washington County 675 $11.2M 2008 120
39466 Pearl River County 641 $11.5M 2005 109
39525 Hancock County 631 $79.6M 2005 419
39572 Hancock County 593 $31.4M 2005 244
39701 Lowndes County 584 $2.6M 1983 158
39212 Hinds County 562 $4.8M 1983 121
39429 Marion County 538 $6.1M 1983 77
39402 Lamar County 504 $7.2M 1999 72
39183 Warren County 465 $9.4M 2019 112
39465 Forrest County 432 $3.3M 1983 71
39702 Lowndes County 424 $3.2M 1990 71
39206 Hinds County 402 $4.2M 2003 90
39194 Yazoo County 395 $8.6M 2011 124
39209 Hinds County 378 $5.4M 2003 97
38676 Tunica County 377 $3.7M 1983 74
39208 Rankin County 365 $4.3M 1983 112
38930 Leflore County 357 $3.8M 1983 156
39213 Hinds County 355 $1.7M 1983 72
38901 Grenada County 314 $3.7M 1983 92
38725 Bolivar County 287 $8.3M 2011 85
39038 Humphreys County 251 $2.0M 1982 51
39667 Walthall County 230 $2.7M 1994 32
39201 Hinds County 226 $3.8M 1983 141
38726 Bolivar County 216 $4.0M 2011 42
38646 Quitman County 202 $2.1M 1991 103
38732 Bolivar County 191 $2.2M 1979 27
39156 Warren County 186 $2.2M 1979 60
39150 Claiborne County 182 $2.5M 2011 39
39159 Sharkey County 178 $2.5M 1979 39
39114 Simpson County 177 $2.0M 1990 46
39440 Jones County 177 $1.8M 2005 20
38614 Coahoma County 166 $4.5M 2016 38
39120 Adams County 165 $1.2M 1979 47
39204 Hinds County 163 $1.8M 1983 29
39216 Hinds County 153 $1.9M 1983 66
39232 Rankin County 153 $4.2M 2003 43
39157 Madison County 151 $3.0M 2011 34
39047 Rankin County 131 $4.0M 2017 33
39470 Pearl River County 118 $4.0M 2005 31
39773 Clay County 118 $1.3M 2019 23
39042 Rankin County 111 $2.7M 2022 14
39073 Rankin County 106 $3.8M 2004 20
39565 Jackson County 103 $2.2M 2005 35
39648 Pike County 103 $1.2M 1990 11
38671 DeSoto County 100 $2.3M 2014 29
39305 Lauderdale County 100 $1.7M 2003 27
39483 Marion County 100 $844K 1980 21

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.