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Flood history / Pennsylvania / ZIP 17702

ZIP 17702
Lycoming County, PA

Paid claims1011978–2018
Total paid$995K$10K average
Heaviest year200430 claims
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 17702 have been paid $995K on 101 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2018 — an average of $10K a claim, across 16 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2004 is the heaviest year on file: 30 paid claims, 29.7% 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 Tropical Storm Ivan, with 30 claims.

1 of those claims — 1.0% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Tropical Storm Ivan3029.7%
Not a named storm33.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 99 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 26 — 26.3% — 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 West Branch Susquehanna River at Williamsport (5.5 mi), West Branch Susquehanna River at Jersey Shore (9.1 mi) and Larrys Creek at Salladasburg (10.1 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 17702 →

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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