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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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]

  5. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    FEMA says this can be used for property that was incorrectly included in a flood zone or if the addition of fill has elevated the property above the flood zone. Information on the property's location, legal description, and use of fill are required for FEMA to determine if the property is located in a flood zone.

  6. FEMA presents preliminary changes to area flood designations

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    FEMA officials on Thursday presented preliminary flood risk map changes and discussed upcoming flood insurance rate adjustments Thursday night during a virtual open house on flood risk information ...

  7. Standardized Natural Hazards Disclosure Statement - Wikipedia

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    The Natural Hazards Disclosure Act, under Sec. 1103 of the California Civil Code, [1] states that real estate seller and brokers are legally required to disclose if the property being sold lies within one or more state or locally mapped hazard areas. The law specifies that the six (6) required hazards be disclosed on a statutory form called the ...

  8. Federal Emergency Management Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978 and implemented by two Executive Orders on April 1, 1979. [1]

  9. Feds say there’s no money left to respond to hurricanes ...

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    Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), whose district neighbors the disaster zone, tweeted: “FEMA spending over a billion dollars on illegals while they leave Americans stranded and without help is ...