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  2. Flood insurance rate map - Wikipedia

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    FIRMs display areas that fall within the 100-year flood boundary. Areas that fall within the boundary are called special flood hazard areas (SFHAs) and they are further divided into insurance risk zones. The term 100-year flood indicates that the area has a one-percent chance of flooding in any given year, not that a flood will occur every 100 ...

  3. What is a flood elevation certificate? - AOL

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    An elevation certificate plays a key role in insurance renewal by providing essential data on a property’s elevation relative to flood risk zones. This enables insurance companies to accurately ...

  4. FEMA is changing Palm Beach County's flood maps. How to ... - AOL

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    On the new maps in Palm Beach County, about 5,000 properties have moved to a high-risk flood zone, also considered a "special flood hazard area," from a low- or medium-risk flood zone.

  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. 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).

  7. FEMA flood maps left Richmond Hill residents unprepared for ...

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    As Matyka noted, FEMA’s latest update of maps for Richmond Hill in 2018 did not place Rushing Street Station within a designated Special Flood Hazard Area that would have triggered the flood ...

  8. Flood opening - Wikipedia

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    The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) requirements apply to any structure that is not dry flood-proofed and which is in the mapped flood zone. It calls for openings in load-bearing foundation walls located below the mapped flood elevation. Where non-engineered openings are used, each opening must be at least three inches in diameter ...

  9. Damage reports from the Broward flood zone: Where the high ...

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