ZIP 70605
Calcasieu Parish, LA

The heaviest year

2021 is the heaviest year on file: 748 paid claims, 28.6% 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 2021 Mid-Spring Severe Storms, with 741 claims.

1,114 of those claims — 42.6% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
2021 Mid-Spring Severe Storms	741	28.3%
Hurricane Ike	417	15.9%
Hurricane Rita	399	15.2%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 2,382 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 1,172 — 49.2% — 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 Contraband Bayou at Common Street (4.9 mi), Tide Station (LCH) at Lake Charles (7.2 mi) and Little Bayou D'Inde at Wright Road (7.7 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 70605 →

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.