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Flood history / Indiana / ZIP 46143

ZIP 46143
Johnson County, IN

Paid claims1161978–2025
Total paid$2.8M$24K average
Heaviest year200868 claims
Outside high-risk zone19%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 46143 have been paid $2.8M on 116 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $24K a claim, across 18 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2008 is the heaviest year on file: 68 paid claims, 58.6% 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 Storm, with 67 claims.

6 of those claims — 5.2% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Storm6757.8%
Central U.S. April Flooding10.9%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 112 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 21 — 18.8% — 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 Lick Creek (IN) near Beech Grove (7.6 mi), Buck Creek (IN) at Acton (9.3 mi) and White River (IN) at Stout Power Plant (9.4 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 46143 →

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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