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Flood history / Florida / ZIP 32003

ZIP 32003
Clay County, FL

Paid claims3341980–2025
Total paid$16.7M$50K average
Heaviest year2017208 claims
Outside high-risk zone37%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 32003 have been paid $16.7M on 334 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1980 and 2025 — an average of $50K a claim, across 28 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2017 is the heaviest year on file: 208 paid claims, 62.3% 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 Hurricane Irma, with 205 claims.

229 of those claims — 68.6% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Irma20561.4%
Hurricane Jeanne319.3%
Hurricane Matthew123.6%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 333 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 123 — 36.9% — 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 Black Creek (in MHHW) (3.2 mi), Julington Creek at St. Johns River Entrance (in MHHW) (5.6 mi) and St. Johns River at Buckman Bridge (I-295) (in MHHW) (6.3 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 32003 →

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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