Flood history / Tennessee / ZIP 37221
ZIP 37221
Davidson County, TN
Property owners in ZIP 37221 have been paid $13.1M on 200 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1983 and 2025 — an average of $66K a claim, across 25 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
2010 is the heaviest year on file: 136 paid claims, 68.0% 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 Late spring storms, with 135 claims.
40 of those claims — 20.0% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.
| Named event | Paid claims | Share of record |
|---|---|---|
| Late spring storms | 135 | 67.5% |
| Central U.S. April Flooding | 3 | 1.5% |
| Heavy rains | 1 | 0.5% |
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 200 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 91 — 45.5% — 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 Harpeth River at Bellevue (2.5 mi), Richland Creek near Belle Meade (6.5 mi) and Harpeth River near Kingston Springs (8.3 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 37221 →
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.