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Flood history / Ohio / ZIP 45239

ZIP 45239
Hamilton County, OH

Paid claims1081978–2026
Total paid$609K$6K average
Heaviest year198217 claims
Outside high-risk zone26%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 45239 have been paid $609K on 108 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2026 — an average of $6K a claim, across 26 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1982 is the heaviest year on file: 17 paid claims, 15.7% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 25 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Not a named storm, with 1 claims.

15 of those claims — 13.9% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 82 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 21 — 25.6% — 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 Great Miami River at Miamitown (6.6 mi), Ohio River at Cincinnati (8.4 mi) and Mill Creek at Evendale (9.0 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 45239 →

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 Ohio ZIP codes on file

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  • 45750 Washington County · 940 claims
  • 43452 Ottawa County · 699 claims

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