Flood history / Indiana / ZIP 47714
ZIP 47714
Vanderburgh County, IN
Property owners in ZIP 47714 have been paid $1.1M on 158 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2018 — an average of $7K a claim, across 24 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
1980 is the heaviest year on file: 44 paid claims, 27.8% 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 Mid-spring storms, with 1 claims.
3 of those claims — 1.9% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 107 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 83 — 77.6% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Most of the paid flooding in this ZIP happened to properties the maps did not treat as high risk. 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 Ohio River at Evansville (3.2 mi), Ohio River at Newburgh Lock and Dam (8.2 mi) and Ohio River at Henderson (8.6 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 47714 →
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.