Jefferson Parish
Mold Removal in Harvey, Where Half the Repeat Losses Happened Four Times
Tell us where the water shows and how long the smell has been there, and we will say whether this is an assessment, a removal, a drying job or nothing at all. Of Harvey's 794 repeat-loss properties, 379 have been paid four or more times and 338 sit outside the mapped high risk zone, so on a great many addresses here the flood map is not the document that will tell you what is wrong.
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Tell us what you can see or smell, roughly where in the house it is, and whether the house is raised or on a slab. Those three things narrow it more than the size of the patch does, because they point at how the water is arriving rather than where it ended up.
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What Harvey's four-or-more loss record tells an assessor
Harvey records 794 National Flood Insurance Program multiple loss properties, of which 379, nearly half, have four or more paid losses and 338, 43 percent, sit outside the mapped high risk flood zone.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset NFIP Multiple Loss Properties, data as of August 2, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22
Harvey's Census Bureau interior point stands 3.50 feet below sea level under the USGS national elevation dataset.
Source: United States Geological Survey, The National Map, 3D Elevation Program Point Query Service, 1/3 arc-second elevation, accessed 2026-09-22
Harvey has 9,253 housing units with a median year built of 1975. 61.8 percent predate 1980 and only 231 units, 2.5 percent, predate 1940. Renters occupy 47.3 percent of occupied homes, the fourth highest share in this service area.
Source: United States Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 five year estimates, accessed 2026-09-22
The USDA soil series named for Westwego, established in Jefferson Parish in 1981, describes soils on drained areas between the natural levees and marsh, where the landscape was semifluid clayey swamp and swamp-marsh transition prior to reclamation, at elevations generally two or three feet below sea level, now used mainly for urban land and pastureland.
Source: United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Official Series Description, accessed 2026-09-22
Five of the sixteen places in this service area are Census designated places with no municipal government of their own. The Census Bureau's 2024 gazetteer records Metairie, Harvey, Marrero, River Ridge and Terrytown as CDPs, along with Chalmette, Arabi, Belle Chasse and Laplace. New Orleans, Kenner, Gretna, Westwego, Slidell, Mandeville and Covington are incorporated cities.
Source: United States Census Bureau, 2024 Gazetteer Files, Places, Louisiana, accessed 2026-09-22
Unincorporated Jefferson Parish, National Flood Insurance Program community 225199, holds Community Rating System Class 3, which carries a 35 percent flood insurance premium discount in the special flood hazard area and 10 percent outside it. That is the deepest discount of any community in this service area. Metairie, Harvey, Marrero, River Ridge and Terrytown are unincorporated and fall under this community, not under any city of their own.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, accessed 2026-09-22
Jefferson Parish has the highest paid and unpaid National Flood Insurance Program claim count of any parish in this service area at 135,482 claims on record. The dataset covers claims from the start of the program and is redacted to protect individual policyholders.
Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, OpenFEMA dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims, data as of June 1, 2026, accessed 2026-09-22
Has this happened more than once?
Harvey's record is full of addresses paid four times and more, and a repeat is a different diagnosis from a first. Tell us how many times, and how long ago.
Harvey is unincorporated, so Jefferson Parish holds the file
Harvey is unincorporated, so Jefferson Parish is the permitting and floodplain authority for every address in it and the parish's Community Rating System Class 3 discount applies, 35 percent inside the special flood hazard area. The flood file is where Harvey parts company with its neighbors. Of 794 repeat-loss properties, 379 have been paid four or more times and 338 sit outside the mapped high risk zone altogether. An address that has taken water repeatedly while never being in the zone is an address where the map is not the document to reason from, and the evidence that is left is the building: how the ground falls across the lot, where the downspouts put their water, what is under the floor. The ground itself was reclaimed swamp between the natural levee and the marsh, generally two or three feet below sea level, which is why drainage and not height decides what happens in a heavy rain. Renters occupy 47.3 percent of occupied homes here, one of the higher shares we cover, so if you are renting say so first: it changes who orders the assessment and who the findings go to.
What we arrange for Harvey addresses
Mold Assessment and Moisture Survey
Find out where the water is arriving, whether the wall is leaking or condensing, and whether there is a mold job here at all, in writing, from a company that is not the one selling you the removal.
Mold Assessment in Harvey →Mold Removal and Remediation
Get the affected material out under containment, take the cause out with it, and have the work priced against a written scope that the removal firm did not write.
Mold Removal in Harvey →Water Damage Drying and Flood Cleanup
Water out and the structure dried to a measured reading inside the 24 to 48 hour window that decides whether the material stays or comes out.
Water Damage Drying in Harvey →Describe the Harvey address and what keeps coming back
Send it in writing and a person reads it. We will tell you which of the three jobs this is, or that it is none of them.