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Flood history / Texas / ZIP 77060

ZIP 77060
Harris County, TX

Paid claims1,8421978–2024
Total paid$141.7M$77K average
Heaviest year2017397 claims
Outside high-risk zone30%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 77060 have been paid $141.7M on 1,842 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $77K a claim, across 37 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2017 is the heaviest year on file: 397 paid claims, 21.6% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 36 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Hurricane Harvey, with 391 claims.

565 of those claims — 30.7% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Harvey39121.2%
Tropical Storm Allison27815.1%
Heavy rains25814.0%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 1,655 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 496 — 30.0% — 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 Greens Bayou near Houston (1.9 mi), Greens Bayou at Houston (5.6 mi) and Cypress Creek near Westfield (7.2 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 77060 →

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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