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Flood history / California / ZIP 92647

ZIP 92647
Orange County, CA

Paid claims1661978–2025
Total paid$559K$3K average
Heaviest year199540 claims
Outside high-risk zone15%of claims with a rated zone

Property owners in ZIP 92647 have been paid $559K on 166 National Flood Insurance Program claims between 1978 and 2025 — an average of $3K a claim, across 28 separate years in which someone here filed and was paid.

The heaviest year

1995 is the heaviest year on file: 40 paid claims, 24.1% of the ZIP's total. The rest is spread across the other 27 years on file. The largest named event in the record is Pineapple Express - Southern, with 7 claims.

12 of those claims — 7.2% — were filed since 2017. The bulk of this ZIP's record is older than that.

Named eventPaid claimsShare of record
Pineapple Express - Southern74.2%
Tropical Storm Hilary10.6%

Where the claims sat on the map

Of the 106 claims here that record a rated flood zone, 16 — 15.1% — 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 Santa Ana River at Santa Ana (6.1 mi), San Gabriel River (CA) at Spring Street (7.7 mi) and Rio Hondo (CA) above Stewart and Gray Road (17.8 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 92647 →

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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