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Flood history / New York / ZIP 10950

ZIP 10950
Orange County, NY

Paid claims2881978–2025
Total paid$2.5M$9K average
Heaviest year197964 claims
Outside high-risk zone36%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 10950 have been paid $2.5M on 288 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $9K a claim, across 30 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1979 is the heaviest year on file: 64 paid claims, 22.2% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 29 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Irene, with 56 claims.

15 of those claims — 5.2% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Irene5619.4%
Not a named storm4616.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 173 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 63 — 36.4% — 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 Ramapo River at Ramapo (12.3 mi), Mahwah River at Suffern (12.9 mi) and Hudson River at West Point (13.4 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 10950 →

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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  • 10306 Richmond County · 6,439 claims

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