ZIP 35124
Shelby County, AL

The heaviest year

2021 is the heaviest year on file: 108 paid claims, 17.6% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 29 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Not a named storm, with 25 claims.

123 of those claims — 20.1% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
Not a named storm	25	4.1%
Early winter storms	6	1.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 576 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 191 — 33.2% — 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 Cahaba Valley Creek Indian Springs at Indian Trail Road (1.9 mi), Cahaba Valley Creek at Pelham (3.8 mi) and Cahaba River near Cahaba Heights (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 35124 →

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.