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Flood history / Massachusetts / ZIP 02050

ZIP 02050
Plymouth County, MA

Paid claims1,3931978–2025
Total paid$20.3M$15K average
Heaviest year1991354 claims
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 02050 have been paid $20.3M on 1,393 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $15K a claim, across 42 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1991 is the heaviest year on file: 354 paid claims, 25.4% of the ZIP's total. That one year accounts for more than a quarter of the ZIP's entire record. The largest named event in the record is The "Halloween" Storm, with 350 claims.

170 of those claims — 12.2% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
The "Halloween" Storm35025.1%
December Storm - Nor'easter1319.4%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 1,327 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 346 — 26.1% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Being outside the high-risk zone has not meant much here. 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 Green Harbor, Marshfield (In MLLW) (4.0 mi), Massachusetts Bay at Scituate (IN MLLW) (5.8 mi) and Indian Head River at Hanover (5.9 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 02050 →

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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  • 02360 Plymouth County · 290 claims
  • 02301 Plymouth County · 256 claims

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