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ZIP 77356
Montgomery County, TX

Paid claims4941979–2025
Total paid$17.9M$36K average
Heaviest year2017210 claims
Outside high-risk zone85%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 77356 have been paid $17.9M on 494 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2025 — an average of $36K a claim, across 29 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2017 is the heaviest year on file: 210 paid claims, 42.5% 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 196 claims.

275 of those claims — 55.7% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Harvey19639.7%
Early summer severe storms438.7%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 477 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 405 — 84.9% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Most of the paid flooding in this ZIP happened to properties the maps did not treat as high risk. 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 West Fork San Jacinto River at Lake Conroe (12.5 mi), Lake Creek above The Woodlands (17.4 mi) and Grassy Creek at TX 105 near Navasota (17.7 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 77356 →

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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