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Reduce Your Risk. Decide how to prepare your family and protect your home from flooding. Consider which of the methods included in this guide are most appropriate and practical, based on your home’s flood risk, and create a plan to mitigate the risk to your property.
It’s important to consider flood preparation before disaster hits by doing things like signing up for alerts, packing an emergency supply kit, and researching flood insurance options.
Get your home ready for a flood. Make sure you secure or protect any hazards in your home before the flood strikes. Be prepared to turn off electrical power when there is standing water, fallen power lines, or before you evacuate. Turn off gas and water supplies before you evacuate. Secure structurally unstable building materials.
Green infrastructure can mitigate flood risk by slowing and reducing stormwater runoff and protecting floodplains. As the climate changes, this type of mitigation becomes even more crucial for communities.
These methods include prevention, prediction (which enables flood warnings and evacuation), proofing (e.g.: zoning regulations), physical control (nature-based solutions and physical structures like dams and flood walls) and insurance (e.g.: flood insurance policies). [9][10]
From pop-up barriers to LiDAR flood prevention, these tools could change the future of flood protection around the world.
Mitigation is an action to reduce the loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters. Mitigation can keep natural hazards, like flooding and hurricanes, from having catastrophic impacts.
We have tools and resources to help communities navigate NFIP requirements and implement higher standards of floodplain management. State and federal agencies, local communities and property owners have a role in reducing flood risk and helping communities become more resilient.
Flooding is a coast-to-coast threat to some part of the United States and its territories nearly every day of the year. This site is designed to teach you how to stay safe in a flood event.
Elevate your boiler. Utilities, boilers, central air-conditioning units, and other HVAC equipment normally located at the lowest level of a home are particularly vulnerable to flood damage.