{"id":153,"date":"2022-07-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huntsvillelandsurveying.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2024-05-26T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T05:48:27","slug":"find-your-property-flood-insurance-rate-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/find-your-property-flood-insurance-rate-map\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Find Your Property On FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What are FEMA flood maps?<\/h1>

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FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps<\/a> (FIRMs) or just Flood Maps are provided after a flood risk assessment has been completed or updated for a community.\u00a0 This study is known as a Flood Insurance Study.\u00a0 The FIRM gives you the Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) and insurance risk zones in addition to floodplain boundaries.\u00a0 The FIRM may also show a delineation of the regulatory floodway.<\/p>

Once the “insurance risk zone”\u00a0 (commonly referred to as the flood zone) is determined, actuarial rates, based on these risk zones, are then applied for newly constructed, substantially approved, and substantially damaged buildings.\u00a0 FEMA uses these rates to determine the insurance rate you will pay for flood insurance<\/p>

FEMA’s Digital Flood Maps<\/h2>

FEMA discontinued the production and distribution of paper flood maps in 2009 as part of its Digital Vision Initiative. This affected all the Flood Maps, boundary information, and study reports. However, clients can still view the products for free through their website or buy them in digital format.<\/p>

To view these flood maps online, go to FEMA’s Map Service Center <\/a>and key in your address (hi-lited area shown here) search for your home.\u00a0 This will prompt you to then select the map that covers your area.\u00a0 The Flood Maps are somewhat cumbersome to use online. It is best to go through the tutorial<\/a> on the bottom right of the address search page for an easier and more effective use of the GIS map.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are FEMA flood maps? FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) or just Flood Maps are provided after a flood risk assessment has been completed or updated for a community.\u00a0 This study is known as a Flood Insurance Study.\u00a0 The FIRM gives you the Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) and insurance risk zones in addition to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,6,7],"tags":[10,11,13,14,15],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alta-survey","category-flood-damage","category-land-surveying","category-land-surveyor","tag-elevation-certificate","tag-fema-flood-map","tag-flood-zone","tag-national-flood-insurance-program","tag-nfip"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altasurveymaryland.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}