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Flood history / Kentucky / ZIP 41649

ZIP 41649
Floyd County, KY

Paid claims4291978–2025
Total paid$6.3M$15K average
Heaviest year1984125 claims
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 41649 have been paid $6.3M on 429 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $15K a claim, across 35 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1984 is the heaviest year on file: 125 paid claims, 29.1% 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 Storm, with 59 claims.

39 of those claims — 9.1% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Storm5913.8%
Not a named storm143.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 283 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 73 — 25.8% — 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 Beaver Creek (Levisa Fork KY) at Martin (1.2 mi), Levisa Fork at Prestonsburg (6.9 mi) and Right Fork Beaver Creek near Muddy (10.0 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 41649 →

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.

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