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Flood history / New Jersey / ZIP 08055

ZIP 08055
Burlington County, NJ

Paid claims2571978–2024
Total paid$4.3M$17K average
Heaviest year200468 claims
Outside high-risk zone38%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 08055 have been paid $4.3M on 257 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $17K a claim, across 31 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2004 is the heaviest year on file: 68 paid claims, 26.5% 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 April 2007 Nor'easter, with 30 claims.

49 of those claims — 19.1% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
April 2007 Nor'easter3011.7%
Hurricane Irene218.2%
Mid-spring storms166.2%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 244 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 93 — 38.1% — 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 Southwest Branch Rancocas Creek at Medford (2.3 mi), South Branch Rancocas Creek at Vincentown (6.2 mi) and North Branch Rancocas Creek at Iron Works Park Mount Holly (9.3 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 08055 →

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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