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ZIP 58301
Ramsey County, ND

Paid claims8701979–2013
Total paid$33.7M$39K average
Heaviest year1997224 claims
Outside high-risk zone86%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 58301 have been paid $33.7M on 870 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2013 — an average of $39K a claim, across 17 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1997 is the heaviest year on file: 224 paid claims, 25.7% 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 Late spring storms, with 29 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 storms293.3%
Severe flooding202.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 477 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 408 — 85.5% — 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 Devils Lake near Devils Lake (3.0 mi), Eastern Stump Lake near Lakota (31.1 mi) and James River near Grace City (40.4 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 58301 →

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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  • 58701 Ward County · 553 claims
  • 58504 Burleigh County · 483 claims
  • 58078 Cass County · 440 claims

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