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Flood history / Texas / ZIP 78643

ZIP 78643
Llano County, TX

Paid claims1431980–2025
Total paid$5.5M$38K average
Heaviest year201891 claims
Outside high-risk zone15%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 78643 have been paid $5.5M on 143 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1980 and 2025 — an average of $38K a claim, across 17 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

2018 is the heaviest year on file: 91 paid claims, 63.6% of the ZIP's total. More than half of everything ever paid here traces to that single year. The largest named event in the record is Fall 2018 Texas Flooding, with 85 claims.

100 of those claims — 69.9% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Fall 2018 Texas Flooding8559.4%
Thunderstorms53.5%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 142 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 22 — 15.5% — 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 Llano River at Llano (5.6 mi), Sandy Creek near Willow City (8.8 mi) and Sandy Creek near Kingsland (16.7 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 78643 →

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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