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Flood history / Tennessee / ZIP 37205

ZIP 37205
Davidson County, TN

Paid claims2471978–2026
Total paid$7.8M$32K average
Heaviest year2010108 claims
Outside high-risk zone41%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 37205 have been paid $7.8M on 247 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2026 — an average of $32K a claim, across 31 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2010 is the heaviest year on file: 108 paid claims, 43.7% 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 Late spring storms, with 108 claims.

86 of those claims — 34.8% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Late spring storms10843.7%
Central U.S. April Flooding228.9%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 231 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 94 — 40.7% — 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 Richland Creek near Belle Meade (0.8 mi), Richland Creek at Charlotte Avenue in Nashville (2.8 mi) and Browns Creek at Glendale Lane (4.5 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 37205 →

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 Tennessee ZIP codes on file

  • 37211 Davidson County · 682 claims
  • 37215 Davidson County · 408 claims
  • 37204 Davidson County · 403 claims
  • 37214 Davidson County · 366 claims
  • 37207 Davidson County · 335 claims
  • 37138 Davidson County · 271 claims
  • 37209 Davidson County · 255 claims
  • 37115 Davidson County · 239 claims

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