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ZIP 58201
Grand Forks County, ND

Paid claims2,1891978–2022
Total paid$54.9M$25K average
Heaviest year19971,743 claims
Outside high-risk zone56%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 58201 have been paid $54.9M on 2,189 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2022 — an average of $25K a claim, across 31 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1997 is the heaviest year on file: 1,743 paid claims, 79.6% 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 Not a named storm, with 157 claims.

66 of those claims — 3.0% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Not a named storm1577.2%
Severe flooding60.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 2,157 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 1,207 — 56.0% — 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 Red River of the North at Grand Forks (6.7 mi), Red River of the North at Oslo (22.6 mi) and Sandhill River at Climax (23.2 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 58201 →

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.

Other North Dakota ZIP codes on file

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  • 58301 Ramsey County · 870 claims
  • 58102 Cass County · 686 claims
  • 58701 Ward County · 553 claims
  • 58504 Burleigh County · 483 claims
  • 58078 Cass County · 440 claims

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