Floodplain Management

  1. What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
  2. What is a Floodway?
  3. What is a floodplain, and what is a flood?
  4. What is the National Flood Insurance Program?
  5. What is a Flood Insurance Rate Map? What is the importance of a Special Flood Hazard Area and what are flood zones?
  6. What is the probability of flooding within a 100-year floodplain?
  7. Is there really a need for flood insurance?
  8. My house is in a Floodplain? What do I need to do?
  9. Who has to buy Flood Insurance?
  10. What is a Preferred Risk Policy? Can this save property owners money?
  11. What is an elevation Certificate?
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FEMA Flood Map Services

To determine your floodplain map area or to see if you are in a floodplain, enter your address into the FEMA Flood Map Service Center.