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ZIP 77614
Newton County, TX

Paid claims1131980–2024
Total paid$4.7M$42K average
Heaviest year201735 claims
Outside high-risk zone24%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 77614 have been paid $4.7M on 113 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1980 and 2024 — an average of $42K a claim, across 18 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2017 is the heaviest year on file: 35 paid claims, 31.0% 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 34 claims.

37 of those claims — 32.7% — were filed since 2017. The pattern here is still active.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Hurricane Harvey3430.1%
Late winter severe storms2219.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 87 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 21 — 24.1% — 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 Sabine River at Deweyville (0.3 mi), Bess Branch at Alligator Park (4.2 mi) and Little Cypress Creek (SE TX) at County Road 3114 (6.6 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 77614 →

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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