ZIP 11231
Kings County, NY

The heaviest year

2012 is the heaviest year on file: 181 paid claims, 61.4% of the ZIP's total. More than half of everything ever paid here traces to that single year. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Sandy, with 180 claims.

59 of those claims — 20.0% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
Hurricane Sandy	180	61.0%
Hurricane Ida	30	10.2%
Hurricane Irene	22	7.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 287 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 59 — 20.6% — 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 New York Harbor at The Battery (IN MLLW) (1.6 mi), Passaic River at Newark (IN MLLW) (6.6 mi) and Kill Van Kull at Bergen Point (IN MLLW) (7.9 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 11231 →

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.