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Flood history / Kentucky / ZIP 41164

ZIP 41164
Carter County, KY

Paid claims2321978–2025
Total paid$5.7M$24K average
Heaviest year200374 claims
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 41164 have been paid $5.7M on 232 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $24K a claim, across 17 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2003 is the heaviest year on file: 74 paid claims, 31.9% 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 Not a named storm, with 3 claims.

13 of those claims — 5.6% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 203 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 53 — 26.1% — 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 Tygarts Creek above Olive Hill (1.8 mi), Little Sandy River at Leon (9.7 mi) and Little Sandy River at Grayson (12.3 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 41164 →

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 Kentucky ZIP codes on file

  • 41143 Carter County · 128 claims
  • 40601 Franklin County · 1,649 claims
  • 40059 Oldham County · 1,615 claims
  • 42240 Christian County · 968 claims
  • 41501 Pike County · 876 claims
  • 40207 Jefferson County · 718 claims
  • 40214 Jefferson County · 671 claims
  • 41144 Greenup County · 608 claims

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