Flood zone · ZIP 80205
Flood zone in Denver (Five Points), CO
ZIP 80205 (Colorado) — flood zone summary sourced from FEMA NFHL. Data lands this week as the FEMA NFHL ingestion pipeline rolls out.
Last verified 2026-04-24 · methodology
What lands here
Pages show the flood zone code, what it means in plain English (1% annual chance zone, 0.2% annual chance zone, or outside mapped hazard), and the base flood elevation where assigned.
Source & refresh
FEMA NFHL. Refreshed quarterly loma updates. Stale data is flagged, never silently served. Primary source →
Limitations specific to this source
For an official flood-zone determination (required by lenders), consult the FEMA Map Service Center directly. zipradar shows informational classifications only.
Colorado context
Radon Zone 1, wildfire on the Front Range
Colorado is one of the most uniformly Zone 1 radon states in the US. WUI wildfire risk concentrates along the Front Range from Boulder to Colorado Springs. Drinking water sourcing splits between Front Range water districts and Western Slope reclamation projects, each with distinct EPA SDWIS compliance histories.
See Colorado state page for the full state-level rollup across all 12 dimensions.
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Full dashboard for ZIP 80205
Flood zone is one of twelve dimensions zipradar federates per address. See the full federated summary for ZIP 80205:
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