Flood history / Florida / ZIP 34653
ZIP 34653
Pasco County, FL
Property owners in ZIP 34653 have been paid $12.4M on 492 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $25K a claim, across 38 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
2024 is the heaviest year on file: 122 paid claims, 24.8% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 37 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Tropical Storm Debby, with 91 claims.
168 of those claims — 34.1% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.
| Named event | Paid claims | Share of record |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical Storm Debby | 91 | 18.5% |
| Hurricane Helene | 81 | 16.5% |
| Hurricane Milton | 36 | 7.3% |
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 489 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 110 — 22.5% — 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 Tide Gauge at New Port Richey (in MHHW) (2.1 mi), Anclote River near Elfers at Little Road (2.5 mi) and Lake Worrell Outfall Near New Port Richey (2.8 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 34653 →
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.