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Flood history / New Hampshire / ZIP 03045

ZIP 03045
Hillsborough County, NH

Paid claims1571978–2023
Total paid$3.5M$22K average
Heaviest year200656 claims
Outside high-risk zone31%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 03045 have been paid $3.5M on 157 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2023 — an average of $22K a claim, across 18 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2006 is the heaviest year on file: 56 paid claims, 35.7% 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 March 2010 Nor'easter, with 2 claims.

2 of those claims — 1.3% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 153 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 47 — 30.7% — 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 Piscataquog River at Goffstown (0.7 mi), Merrimack River at Goffs Falls (7.2 mi) and Souhegan River at Merrimack (11.7 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 03045 →

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.

Other New Hampshire ZIP codes on file

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  • 03275 Merrimack County · 139 claims
  • 03079 Rockingham County · 134 claims
  • 03833 Rockingham County · 102 claims
  • 03077 Rockingham County · 101 claims

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