Livingston Parish residents face costly upgrades after parish fails to meet requirements for National Flood Insurance Program Residents face costly upgrades after Livingston Parish fails to meet requirements for National Flood Insurance Program By Austin Kemker | April 27, 2021 at 6:02 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 6:50 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - More than 1,200 Livingston Parish property owners are now facing costly upgrades after parish leaders failed to meet requirements for the National Flood Insurance Program. Property owners received a letter from the Livingston Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness alerting them they would have to make costly fixes to their homes or businesses to lift them away from any potential floods after the parish failed to survey their flood-damaged properties after 2016. Only properties that received substantial damage from the August 2016 flood are having to make the fix, which means costs that were more than 50% of the property’s value. It only applies to properties in flood zones prior to the 2016 flood.