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ZIP 44883
Seneca County, OH

Paid claims1091979–2026
Total paid$1.6M$15K average
Heaviest year200833 claims
Outside high-risk zone17%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 44883 have been paid $1.6M on 109 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2026 — an average of $15K a claim, across 17 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2008 is the heaviest year on file: 33 paid claims, 30.3% 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 winter storms, with 22 claims.

4 of those claims — 3.7% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Late winter storms2220.2%
Tropical Storm Erin10.9%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 98 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 17 — 17.3% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Claims here concentrate inside the mapped high-risk area, which is what the maps intend. 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 Sandusky River at Tiffin (0.8 mi), Sandusky River near S Fremont (12.7 mi) and Tymochtee Creek at Crawford (16.6 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 44883 →

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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