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Flood history / Pennsylvania / ZIP 19082

ZIP 19082
Delaware County, PA

Paid claims3611978–2021
Total paid$5.0M$14K average
Heaviest year200486 claims
Outside high-risk zone33%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 19082 have been paid $5.0M on 361 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2021 — an average of $14K a claim, across 24 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2004 is the heaviest year on file: 86 paid claims, 23.8% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 23 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Isaias, with 46 claims.

75 of those claims — 20.8% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Isaias4612.7%
Tropical Storm Lee236.4%
Hurricane Floyd195.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 349 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 115 — 33.0% — 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 Cobbs Creek at Mt. Moriah Cemetery (2.6 mi), Schuylkill River at Philadelphia (4.3 mi) and Darby Creek at 84th Street Bridge at Eastwick (4.3 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 19082 →

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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