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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. National Flood Insurance Program - Wikipedia

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    Theoretically a 100-year flood has a 1 percent chance (1/100 = 0.01 or 1 percent) of occurring in any given year and a 500-year flood has as a 0.2 percent chance (1/500 = 0.002 or 0.2 percent) of occurring in any given year. [12] However, these expected flood elevations actually occur more or less often than expected. [13]

  4. Buying a house in a flood zone? Know the risks first - AOL

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    Before buying a house in a flood zone, it’s important to know the risks and costs involved — especially with the increase in extreme weather in recent years. Purchasing flood insurance may ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...