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Flood history / West Virginia / ZIP 25678

ZIP 25678
Mingo County, WV

Paid claims1621978–2025
Total paid$2.5M$15K average
Heaviest year198472 claims
Outside high-risk zone16%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 25678 have been paid $2.5M on 162 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $15K a claim, across 15 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1984 is the heaviest year on file: 72 paid claims, 44.4% 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 Storm, with 19 claims.

4 of those claims — 2.5% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Storm1911.7%
February West Virginia Flooding42.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 159 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 25 — 15.7% — 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 Left Fork Peter Creek at Phelps (6.8 mi), Pond Creek at Pond Creek (7.7 mi) and Tug Fork River at Williamson (9.0 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 25678 →

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 West Virginia ZIP codes on file

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  • 25670 Mingo County · 189 claims
  • 25674 Mingo County · 141 claims
  • 26003 Ohio County · 3,000 claims
  • 25601 Logan County · 769 claims
  • 24954 Pocahontas County · 598 claims
  • 25637 Logan County · 487 claims
  • 26301 Harrison County · 448 claims

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