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ZIP 68005
Sarpy County, NE

Paid claims2211978–2019
Total paid$3.8M$17K average
Heaviest year199372 claims
Outside high-risk zone17%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 68005 have been paid $3.8M on 221 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2019 — an average of $17K a claim, across 19 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1993 is the heaviest year on file: 72 paid claims, 32.6% 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 Midwest Flooding, with 67 claims.

12 of those claims — 5.4% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Midwest Flooding6730.3%
March 2019 Midwest Flooding115.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 211 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 35 — 16.6% — 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 Missouri River at Highway 370 at Bellevue (0.8 mi), Offutt Ditch (Bellevue Drain) near Offutt AFB (1.8 mi) and Papillion Creek at Fort Crook (2.8 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 68005 →

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 Nebraska ZIP codes on file

  • 68123 Sarpy County · 318 claims
  • 68046 Sarpy County · 114 claims
  • 68025 Dodge County · 602 claims
  • 68064 Douglas County · 389 claims
  • 68003 Saunders County · 203 claims
  • 68341 Saline County · 179 claims
  • 68310 Gage County · 157 claims
  • 68069 Douglas County · 152 claims

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