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  2. 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 ...

  3. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    A flood insurance rate map (FIRM) is an official map of a community within the United States that displays the floodplains, more explicitly special hazard areas and risk premium zones, as delineated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [1]

  4. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) defines the floodplain as the area that would be flooded by a base flood, [8] which is "the flood which has a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year". In this sense, a base flood is synonymous with a 100-year flood and a floodplain is synonymous with a special flood ...

  5. Thousands of US communities forgo federal flood insurance - AOL

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    FEMA manages the NFIP, which Congress created in 1968 with the National Flood Insurance Act. Homeowners, businesses, and renters can buy flood coverage through the NFIP Direct system or more than ...

  6. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood ... - AOL

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created Risk Rating 2.0 to help create more fairly rated flood insurance policies by taking more rating factors into consideration.

  7. 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 ...

  8. National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 - Wikipedia

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    The bill would amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to prohibit the Federal Emergency Management Agency from providing flood insurance to prospective insureds at rates less than those estimated for any property purchased after the expiration of such six-month period (currently, any property purchased after July 6, 2012). [9]

  9. What is flood insurance, and why do you need it? - AOL

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    Flood insurance for renters only covers the contents of their home. In the United States, FEMA has traditionally provided all flood insurance plans through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

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