Flood history / Louisiana / ZIP 70592
ZIP 70592
Lafayette Parish, LA
Property owners in ZIP 70592 have been paid $42.1M on 836 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $50K a claim, across 36 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
2016 is the heaviest year on file: 463 paid claims, 55.4% 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 Tropical Storm Allison, with 118 claims.
88 of those claims — 10.5% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 812 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 394 — 48.5% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Being outside the high-risk zone has not meant much here. 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 Vermilion River at Lafayette - Surrey Street (9.8 mi), Vermilion River at Lake Martin Road (10.5 mi) and Vermilion River at Perry (12.0 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 70592 →
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.