ZIP 19153
Philadelphia County, PA

The heaviest year

2020 is the heaviest year on file: 226 paid claims, 37.2% 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 Hurricane Isaias, with 226 claims.

242 of those claims — 39.8% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
Hurricane Isaias	226	37.2%
Hurricane Floyd	128	21.1%
Hurricane Irene	32	5.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 606 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 124 — 20.5% — 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 Darby Creek at 84th Street Bridge at Eastwick (1.6 mi), Cobbs Creek at Mt. Moriah Cemetery (3.6 mi) and Schuylkill River near Philadelphia near 30th Street (6.1 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 19153 →

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.