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Flood history / Pennsylvania / ZIP 18810

ZIP 18810
Bradford County, PA

Paid claims1331979–2011
Total paid$8.5M$64K average
Heaviest year201180 claims
Outside high-risk zone57%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 18810 have been paid $8.5M on 133 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2011 — an average of $64K a claim, across 11 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2011 is the heaviest year on file: 80 paid claims, 60.2% 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 Tropical Storm Lee, with 78 claims.

No paid claims are recorded here since 2017. That can mean the flooding stopped, that properties were bought out or elevated, or simply that fewer owners here carry flood insurance now.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Tropical Storm Lee7858.6%
Tropical Storm Ivan43.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 126 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 72 — 57.1% — 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 Susquehanna River near Waverly (3.7 mi), Chemung River at Chemung (8.5 mi) and Wappasening Creek near Windham Center (9.2 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 18810 →

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.

Other Pennsylvania ZIP codes on file

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  • 17110 Dauphin County · 1,422 claims
  • 17701 Lycoming County · 1,186 claims
  • 19067 Bucks County · 999 claims
  • 17057 Dauphin County · 918 claims
  • 19403 Montgomery County · 811 claims

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