ZIP 34203
Manatee County, FL

The heaviest year

2024 is the heaviest year on file: 41 paid claims, 20.4% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 25 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Debby, with 36 claims.

85 of those claims — 42.3% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
Hurricane Debby	36	17.9%
Torrential rain	10	5.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 197 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 76 — 38.6% — 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 Braden Point (in MHHW) (1.9 mi), Tide Gauge on the Manatee River (In MHHW) (5.6 mi) and Phillippi Creek Lateral Near North Lockwood Ridge Rd (6.5 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 34203 →

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.