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2. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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   The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is a program created by the Congress of the United States in 1968 through the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (P.L. 90-448). The NFIP has two purposes: to share the risk of flood losses through flood insurance and to reduce flood damages by restricting floodplain development.

3. Flood insurance - Wikipedia

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   Flood insurance is the specific insurance coverage issued against property loss from flooding. To determine risk factors for specific properties, insurers will often refer to topographical maps that denote lowlands , floodplains and other areas that are susceptible to flooding.

4. Flood insurance isn't perfect. You should probably buy ... - AOL

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   Most flood coverage is provided by the US government’s National Flood Insurance Program, after private insurers exited the market en masse nearly 100 years ago following catastrophic flooding of ...

5. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood insurance

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   The average annual cost of flood insurance from the NFIP was $700 per year, but under the new system policyholders pay on average $800. Risk Rating 2.0 considers a host of variables that weren’t ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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]