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2. Special Flood Hazard Area - Wikipedia

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   Areas within the SFHA are designated on the flood insurance rate map as Zone A, AO, A1-A30, AE, A99, AH, AR, AR/A, AR/AE, AR/AH, AR/AO, AR/A1-A30, V1-V30 or V. [2] Land areas that are at high risk for flooding are called special flood hazard areas (SFHAs), or floodplains. These areas are indicated on flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs).

3. FEMA unveils building restrictions in flood zones - AOL

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   The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Wednesday announced finalized rules for the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The FFRMS is a flexible federal standard requiring ...

4. Buying a house in a flood zone? Know the risks first - AOL

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   A flood zone is a geographic area that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has defined according to its level of flooding risk. FEMA has designated several flood zones, including ...

5. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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   In this sense, a base flood is synonymous with a 100-year flood and a floodplain is synonymous with a special flood hazard area. This base flood "is used in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to indicate the minimum level of flooding to be used by a community in its floodplain management regulations."

6. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Flash flood emergency FFS – A flash flood emergency is a high-end usage of the flash flood warning. The flash flood emergency term is used when widespread flooding is occurring, and either, multiple water rescues have been reported in the past few hours, or if highly populated regions are undergoing significant flash flooding likely to cause ...

7. Can flood-prone Route 23 be elevated near the river? Local ...

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   Officials from towns along Route 23 are calling on the state to elevate a portion of the highway after a section of it flooded and shut down twice in a matter of weeks, each time paralyzing ...

8. Flood opening - Wikipedia

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   Most regulatory authorities in the United States that offer requirements for flood openings define two major classes of opening: [1] engineered, and non-engineered. The requirements for non-engineered openings are typically stricter, defining necessary characteristics for aspects ranging from overall size of each opening, to allowable screening or other coverage options, to number and ...

9. A month of rain in days: Pineapple Express to drench ... - AOL

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   A 'Possible Mudslide Flooding' sign was posted near the Bridge Fire burn recovery zone on Dec. 19, 2024, near Mount Baldy, California.