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Flood history / Texas / ZIP 77379

ZIP 77379
Harris County, TX

Paid claims1,3931978–2024
Total paid$147.3M$106K average
Heaviest year2017588 claims
Outside high-risk zone84%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 77379 have been paid $147.3M on 1,393 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2024 — an average of $106K a claim, across 42 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2017 is the heaviest year on file: 588 paid claims, 42.2% 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 582 claims.

618 of those claims — 44.4% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Harvey58241.8%
Tropical Storm Allison16311.7%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 1,392 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 1,170 — 84.1% — 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 Willow Creek near Tomball (4.6 mi), Cypress Creek near Cypress (6.0 mi) and Cypress Creek near Westfield (6.3 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 77379 →

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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