Jul 11, 2025 · The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if they live in a designated flood zone.

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 …

Special Flood Hazard Area 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, …

Jul 18, 2025 · The easiest way to know your flood risk is to enter your address into the FEMA flood map service center. The map will tell you if you’re in a federally designated flood zone.

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 …

May 13, 2024 · FEMA's proposed maps could affect insurance rates in eight flood-prone towns. Here's how to review, comment or appeal.

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 …

Nov 5, 2024 · On the new maps in Palm Beach County, about 5,000 properties have moved to a high-risk flood zone, also considered a "special flood hazard area," from a low- or medium-risk flood zone.