Flood history / Arizona / ZIP 85255
ZIP 85255
Maricopa County, AZ
Property owners in ZIP 85255 have been paid $627K on 102 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1983 and 2024 — an average of $6K a claim, across 30 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.
The heaviest year
2018 is the heaviest year on file: 16 paid claims, 15.7% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 29 years on file.
46 of those claims — 45.1% — were filed since 2017. This is not a historical record — most of it is recent.
Where the claims sat on the map
Of the 100 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 8 — 8.0% — 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 Reata Pass Wash above Scottsdale (3.2 mi), Indian Bend Wash at Sweetwater Rd (11.4 mi) and Sycamore Creek near Ft McDowell (16.2 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 85255 →
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.