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Flood history / Wisconsin / ZIP 54631

ZIP 54631
Crawford County, WI

Paid claims1211978–2018
Total paid$3.1M$26K average
Heaviest year200838 claims
Outside high-risk zone6%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 54631 have been paid $3.1M on 121 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2018 — an average of $26K a claim, across 12 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2008 is the heaviest year on file: 38 paid claims, 31.4% 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 34 claims.

27 of those claims — 22.3% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 109 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 6 — 5.5% — 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 Kickapoo River at Gays Mills (2.3 mi), Kickapoo River at Steuben (7.4 mi) and Kickapoo River at Soldiers Grove (7.9 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 54631 →

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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