ZIP 77476
Fort Bend County, TX

The heaviest year

2016 is the heaviest year on file: 179 paid claims, 31.6% 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 Early summer severe storms, with 166 claims.

159 of those claims — 28.0% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named event	Paid claims	Share of record
Early summer severe storms	166	29.3%
Hurricane Harvey	152	26.8%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 559 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 42 — 7.5% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Claims here concentrate inside the mapped high-risk area, which is what the maps intend. 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 San Bernard River at East Bernard (11.1 mi), Brazos River above San Felipe (11.7 mi) and Brazos River at Richmond (14.5 mi). A gauge describes one point on one river — it will not see street drainage, sewer backup, storm surge or flash flooding.

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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.