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Flood history / New Jersey / ZIP 08619

ZIP 08619
Mercer County, NJ

Paid claims2631978–2023
Total paid$4.2M$16K average
Heaviest year201153 claims
Outside high-risk zone38%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 08619 have been paid $4.2M on 263 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2023 — an average of $16K a claim, across 26 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2011 is the heaviest year on file: 53 paid claims, 20.2% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 25 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Irene, with 53 claims.

18 of those claims — 6.8% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Irene5320.2%
Hurricane Floyd3312.5%
April 2007 Nor'easter228.4%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 230 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 88 — 38.3% — 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 Assunpink Creek near Mercerville (1.7 mi), Assunpink Creek at Clarksville (2.3 mi) and Assunpink Creek at Trenton (3.1 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 08619 →

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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