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Flood history / New Jersey / ZIP 08048

ZIP 08048
Burlington County, NJ

Paid claims2031978–2026
Total paid$7.2M$35K average
Heaviest year200750 claims
Outside high-risk zone22%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 08048 have been paid $7.2M on 203 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2026 — an average of $35K a claim, across 16 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2007 is the heaviest year on file: 50 paid claims, 24.6% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 15 years on file. The largest named event in the record is April 2007 Nor'easter, with 44 claims.

20 of those claims — 9.9% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
April 2007 Nor'easter4421.7%
Hurricane Irene3718.2%
Mid-spring storms2210.8%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 186 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 41 — 22.0% — 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 South Branch Rancocas Creek at Vincentown (2.3 mi), North Branch Rancocas Creek at Iron Works Park Mount Holly (2.9 mi) and Southwest Branch Rancocas Creek at Medford (4.2 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 08048 →

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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