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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] The term is used mainly in the United States but similar maps exist in many other countries ...

  3. 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.

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

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    FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 is a new rating system for NFIP flood insurance policies. The program rolled out in two phases. Phase one began October 1, 2021 and entailed new policies being subject to ...

  5. 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] Areas within the SFHA are designated on the flood insurance rate map as ...

  6. What is a flood elevation certificate? - AOL

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    A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood elevation certificate provides specific property elevation information and may be especially beneficial for homeowners in high-risk flood zones.

  7. Florida flooding focuses attention on uninsured Americans - AOL

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    Ask about elevation certificates: While they’re no longer required in order to purchase flood insurance under FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 system, elevation certificates can lower the cost of flood ...

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