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  2. What is a flood elevation certificate? - AOL

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    Under Risk Rating 2.0, homeowners are no longer required to get an elevation certificate prior to purchasing flood insurance. Instead, FEMA determines a property’s first-floor height — one of ...

  3. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    These FIRMs are used in identifying whether a land or building is in flood zone and, if so, which of the different flood zones are in effect. In 2004, FEMA began a project to update and digitize the flood plain maps at a yearly cost of $200 million. The new maps usually take around 18 months to go from a preliminary release to the final product.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Flood insurance - Wikipedia

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    FEMA states that approximately 50% of low flood zone risk borrowers think they are ineligible and cannot buy flood insurance. Anyone residing in a community participating in the NFIP can buy flood insurance, [10] even renters. However, unless one lives in a designated floodplain and is required under the terms of a mortgage to purchase flood ...

  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. Special Flood Hazard Area - Wikipedia

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    A Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) is an area identified by the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as an area with a special flood or mudflow, and/or flood related erosion hazard, as shown on a flood hazard boundary map or flood insurance rate map. [1]

  9. FEMA releases Wayne County flood maps, urges residents to ...

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    The maps help determine flood risks and flood insurance requirements and rates. FEMA is urging residents to look at the maps, identify problems, ask questions, and participate in the 90-day appeal ...

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