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  2. 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]

  3. 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 ...

  4. FEMA unveils building restrictions in flood zones - AOL

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Wednesday announced finalized rules for the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The FFRMS is a flexible federal standard requiring ...

  5. 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]

  6. Understanding FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system for flood ... - AOL

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created Risk Rating 2.0 to help create more fairly rated flood insurance policies by taking more rating factors into consideration.

  7. What is flood insurance, and why do you need it? - AOL

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    Is FEMA flood insurance enough? Under FEMA policies, coverage for single-family homes is capped at $250,000 for a building’s damage and $100,000 for its contents. For businesses, the maximum ...

  8. 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]

  9. Got a flood prone property? FEMA is funding buyouts and ... - AOL

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    FEMA’s hazard mitigation grant program provides funds for property buyouts and home elevations.