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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]
Image title: Valley City, ND, April 16,2009--A aerial view of Valley City, ND shows the extent of flooding by the Sheyenne River. FEMA is working with the Army Corps of Engineers and State and local officials to assist with the protection and recovery efforts being conducted in the Red River valley. Photo by Patsy Lynch/FEMA: Camera manufacturer
This image is a work of a Federal Emergency Management Agency employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As works of the U.S. federal government, all FEMA images are in the public domain in the United States.
FEMA had previously been using an outdated model for determining flood insurance costs. Modern science, years of data and the inclusion of third-party software, data sets and models have allowed ...
Deployment Image Service and Management Tool (DISM) is a tool introduced in Windows 7 [10] and Windows Server 2008 R2 [10] that can perform servicing tasks on a Windows installation image, be it an online image (i.e. the one the user is running) or an offline image within a folder or WIM file. Its features include mounting and unmounting images ...
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]
FEMA and other disaster workers (Urban Search and Rescue, Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, the National Guard, Red Cross, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Forest Service, Internal Revenue Service, and State disaster workers) searching for and/or helping disaster victims. Photographs of damage to private property and public infrastructure.
Hazus is a geographic information system-based natural hazard analysis tool developed and freely distributed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In 1997 FEMA released its first edition of a commercial off-the-shelf loss and risk assessment software package built on GIS technology. This product was termed HAZUS97.