Flood history / Texas / ZIP 77073
ZIP 77073
Harris County, TX
Property owners in ZIP 77073 have been paid $33.4M on 807 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2026 — an average of $41K a claim, across 42 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
1989 is the heaviest year on file: 207 paid claims, 25.7% 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 Hurricane Harvey, with 141 claims.
168 of those claims — 20.8% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.
| Named event | Paid claims | Share of record |
|---|---|---|
| Hurricane Harvey | 141 | 17.5% |
| Tropical Storm Allison | 105 | 13.0% |
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 802 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 386 — 48.1% — 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 Cypress Creek near Westfield (3.0 mi), Greens Bayou near Houston (3.2 mi) and Spring Creek near Spring (7.9 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 77073 →
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.