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ZIP 00951
Toa Baja Municipio, PR

Paid claims5191979–2022
Total paid$3.3M$6K average
Heaviest year1998435 claims
Outside high-risk zone10%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 00951 have been paid $3.3M on 519 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2022 — an average of $6K a claim, across 16 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1998 is the heaviest year on file: 435 paid claims, 83.8% of the ZIP's total. More than half of everything ever paid here traces to that single year. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Georges, with 431 claims.

8 of those claims — 1.5% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Georges43183.0%
Hurricane Hortense326.2%
Tropical Storm Jeanne152.9%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 103 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 10 — 9.7% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Claims here concentrate inside the mapped high-risk area, which is what the maps intend. Flood insurance is not required outside the high-risk zone, and most properties there do not carry it — so these counts come from the minority who did.

The water near this ZIP

The closest gauges publishing official flood thresholds are Rio De La Plata near Toa Alta (1.3 mi), Rio De La Plata below La Plata Dam (6.0 mi) and Rio Corozal at Corozal (7.2 mi). A gauge describes one point on one river — it will not see street drainage, sewer backup, storm surge or flash flooding.

Read current gauge conditions for 00951 →

What this does not say

These are paid National Flood Insurance Program claims, nothing more. They count insured properties whose owners filed and were paid, so they are a floor on how often this ZIP has flooded — never a measure of how likely it is to flood next. Uninsured flooding leaves no trace here at all.

The figures are aggregates published by FEMA. No individual claim, address or policyholder appears on this page or in the data behind it. Nothing here is a forecast, a warning, or advice about insurance.

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