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Flood history / Missouri / ZIP 63049

ZIP 63049
Jefferson County, MO

Paid claims1181978–2024
Total paid$1.9M$16K average
Heaviest year199319 claims
Outside high-risk zone10%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 63049 have been paid $1.9M on 118 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $16K a claim, across 24 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1993 is the heaviest year on file: 19 paid claims, 16.1% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 23 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Early winter storms, with 15 claims.

25 of those claims — 21.2% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Early winter storms1512.7%
Late spring severe storms119.3%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 109 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 11 — 10.1% — 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 Meramec River near Eureka (3.8 mi), Meramec River at Valley Park (5.3 mi) and Meramec River at Fenton (5.8 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 63049 →

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 Missouri ZIP codes on file

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  • 63019 Jefferson County · 344 claims
  • 63051 Jefferson County · 248 claims
  • 63050 Jefferson County · 184 claims
  • 63012 Jefferson County · 182 claims
  • 63023 Jefferson County · 156 claims

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