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Flood history / Texas / ZIP 78155

ZIP 78155
Guadalupe County, TX

Paid claims1,4711978–2025
Total paid$70.2M$48K average
Heaviest year1998515 claims
Outside high-risk zone29%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 78155 have been paid $70.2M on 1,471 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $48K a claim, across 29 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1998 is the heaviest year on file: 515 paid claims, 35.0% 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 378 claims.

20 of those claims — 1.4% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Torrential rain37825.7%
Fall severe storms80.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 1,469 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 424 — 28.9% — were on properties rated outside the mapped high-risk area, in a B, C or X zone. Being outside the high-risk zone has not meant much here. 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 Seguin (2.2 mi), Guadalupe River below Comal (15.1 mi) and Guadalupe River above Comal River at New Braunfels (16.1 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 78155 →

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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