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Flood history / Pennsylvania / ZIP 17771

ZIP 17771
Lycoming County, PA

Paid claims1461979–2024
Total paid$2.4M$17K average
Heaviest year199640 claims
Outside high-risk zone27%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 17771 have been paid $2.4M on 146 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2024 — an average of $17K a claim, across 14 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1996 is the heaviest year on file: 40 paid claims, 27.4% 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 Lee, with 32 claims.

8 of those claims — 5.5% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Tropical Storm Lee3221.9%
Tropical Storm Ivan128.2%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 128 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 34 — 26.6% — 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 Lycoming Creek at Ralston (6.2 mi), Loyalsock Creek at Loyalsockville (10.0 mi) and Loyalsock Creek at Barbours (12.6 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 17771 →

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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