flood insurance rate maps

Maps maintained by the Mitigation Division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. They locate and describe areas having a 1 percent risk of flooding in any given year. They can be viewed online at the FEMA's Map Service Center Web site, http://msc.fema.gov.

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Residents and property owners in Brevard County can see draft preliminary flood insurance rate maps for coastal areas at two public flood risk open houses on March 13 and March 15, 2018.

United States : Digital Preliminary Flood Hazard Maps for Brevard County Ready for Public Viewing

The base flood elevations are the regulatory requirements for elevation or flood-proofing of structures, and these are shown on flood insurance rate maps and on the flood profiles.

The 50% FEMA Rule Appraisal

Historically, few resources offered any insight in the risk of flooding to individual properties beyond the Flood Insurance Rate Maps published by the NFIP.

Flood insurance on the cusp of tremendous change

56) Participating communities must also create flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) that identify special flood hazard areas, or one-hundred-year floodplains (SFHAs).

The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012: temporarily curtailed by the Homeowner Flood Insurance Act of 2014 - a respite to forge an enduring correction to the national flood insurance program built on virtuous economic and environmental incentives

Local communities would adopt floodplain management ordinances; the federal government would administer what are called Flood Insurance Rate Maps.

Underwater

The scariest part: Only a small portion of property considered at risk for flooding (identified by FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or "FIRMs") actually was affected by this particular storm.

Storm-readiness retrofits prove a catch-22

FEMA then uses this information to create flood insurance rate maps, and insurers use the maps to determine the cost of insurance in flood-prone areas.

How Hurricane Sandy tamed the bureaucracy: a practical story of making science useful for society, with lessons destined to grow in importance

com's flood-zone database tracks with FEMA's digital flood insurance rate maps.

PIA-endorsed Floodbroker.com now offered to PIA members

Overseen by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the program uses statistical data to create Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), which display regions at or below Base Flood Elevation (BFE)--meaning they have a one-percent chance of annual flood and therefore are in a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA).

Weather patterns are driving change in insurance assessment: climate changes, from rising sea levels to an increase in the number and intensity of extreme weather systems, are fueling the creation of new methods of assessment by insurers with regard to risk and pricing

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is updating the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) with new rainfall, elevation and flood risk data to gain a clearer snapshot of today's flooding risk.

Meeting on flood map updates

When a property is "substantially damaged" by more than 50 percent of what the dwelling is worth, the dwelling must be brought up to existing codes to comply with the latest flood insurance rate maps (FIRM).

4 Sandy lessons: an agent at the storm's center discusses advising your clients on flood coverage

Town Meeting voted in May to accept a new set of Flood Insurance Rate Maps, which designate areas in town most susceptible to flooding.