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Flood history / New York / ZIP 10960

ZIP 10960
Rockland County, NY

Paid claims1551978–2022
Total paid$4.5M$29K average
Heaviest year201226 claims
Outside high-risk zone73%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 10960 have been paid $4.5M on 155 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2022 — an average of $29K a claim, across 34 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2012 is the heaviest year on file: 26 paid claims, 16.8% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 33 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Sandy, with 26 claims.

6 of those claims — 3.9% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Sandy2616.8%
December Storm - Nor'easter1711.0%
Hurricane Irene127.7%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 141 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 103 — 73.0% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Most of the paid flooding in this ZIP happened to properties the maps did not treat as high risk. 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 Hackensack River at West Nyack (2.0 mi), Hudson River at Piermont (IN MLLW) (3.5 mi) and Pascack River at Park Ridge (6.9 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 10960 →

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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