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Flood history / Texas / ZIP 78133

ZIP 78133
Comal County, TX

Paid claims1081979–2023
Total paid$4.5M$42K average
Heaviest year200241 claims
Outside high-risk zone90%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 78133 have been paid $4.5M on 108 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1979 and 2023 — an average of $42K a claim, across 16 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2002 is the heaviest year on file: 41 paid claims, 38.0% 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 Torrential rain, with 41 claims.

13 of those claims — 12.0% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Torrential rain4138.0%
Fall severe storms1715.7%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 108 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 97 — 89.8% — 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 Guadalupe River at Canyon Lake (3.4 mi), Guadalupe River at Sattler (4.7 mi) and Guadalupe River near Spring Branch (8.0 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.

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