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Flood history / Illinois / ZIP 60532

ZIP 60532
DuPage County, IL

Paid claims2801979–2020
Total paid$9.2M$33K average
Heaviest year2013146 claims
Outside high-risk zone17%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 60532 have been paid $9.2M on 280 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2020 — an average of $33K a claim, across 23 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2013 is the heaviest year on file: 146 paid claims, 52.1% 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 Mid-spring storms, with 146 claims.

25 of those claims — 8.9% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Mid-spring storms14652.1%
Hurricane Ike258.9%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 276 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 46 — 16.7% — 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 East Branch Du Page River at Lisle (0.4 mi), St. Joseph Creek (IL) above Lisle (1.2 mi) and East Branch Du Page River near Downers Grove (3.5 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 60532 →

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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