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Flood history / Wisconsin / ZIP 54935

ZIP 54935
Fond du Lac County, WI

Paid claims4431978–2024
Total paid$6.8M$15K average
Heaviest year2008262 claims
Outside high-risk zone11%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 54935 have been paid $6.8M on 443 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $15K a claim, across 23 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2008 is the heaviest year on file: 262 paid claims, 59.1% 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 March 2019 Midwest Flooding, with 107 claims.

116 of those claims — 26.2% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
March 2019 Midwest Flooding10724.2%
Storm102.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 435 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 49 — 11.3% — 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 Fox River (North) at Oshkosh-Lake Winnebago (16.9 mi), South Branch Rock River at Waupun (17.1 mi) and Fox River (North) at Oshkosh (17.3 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 54935 →

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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