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ZIP 18077
Bucks County, PA

Paid claims1381983–2021
Total paid$2.6M$19K average
Heaviest year200560 claims
Outside high-risk zone18%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 18077 have been paid $2.6M on 138 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1983 and 2021 — an average of $19K a claim, across 10 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2005 is the heaviest year on file: 60 paid claims, 43.5% 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 15 claims.

1 of those claims — 0.7% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Tropical Storm Ivan1510.9%
Torrential rain107.2%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 138 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 25 — 18.1% — 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 Delaware River at Riegelsville (3.0 mi), Lehigh River at Glendon (6.8 mi) and Lehigh River at Bethlehem (8.1 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 18077 →

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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