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Flood history / South Dakota / ZIP 57532

ZIP 57532
Stanley County, SD

Paid claims1181982–2011
Total paid$2.6M$22K average
Heaviest year2011103 claims
Outside high-risk zone51%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 57532 have been paid $2.6M on 118 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1982 and 2011 — an average of $22K a claim, across 6 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2011 is the heaviest year on file: 103 paid claims, 87.3% 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 Late spring storms, with 84 claims.

No paid claims are recorded here since 2017. That can mean the flooding stopped, that properties were bought out or elevated, or simply that fewer owners here carry flood insurance now.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Late spring storms8471.2%
Severe flooding10.8%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 116 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 59 — 50.9% — 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 Bad River (SD) near Fort Pierre (9.4 mi), Missouri River at Pierre (9.8 mi) and Missouri River at La Framboise Island (10.2 mi). A gauge describes one point on one river — it will not see street drainage, sewer backup, storm surge or flash flooding.

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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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