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Is My House in a Flood Zone? FEMA Flood Zone Map Info, and More Margaret Heidenry, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail "Is my property in a flood zone?" That's a question that concerns both homeowners and home shoppers—and not just those near large bodies of water. In fact, there are a little over a dozen flood zone classifications. Those rankings, determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and represented on special maps, are based on the estimated frequency of storms that will cause flooding in an area. So while you may not live in the Gulf Coast (one of the U.S. regions most vu...

It Doesn’t Take a Hurricane to Cause a Flood Flooding is the costliest — and the most common — natural disaster to significantly impact communities across the United States, The PEW Charitable Trust notes in its reporting on flood-prepared communities. Flood events have accounted for more than $850 billion in damage and losses in the U.S. since 2000, the global nonprofit, nongovernmental organization points out. It doesn’t take a hurricane to create a flood event. After all, just one inch of water in a structure can cause up to $25,000 of damage, according to FEMA. But the run-up to t...

NGS revises NOAA report on working in the modernized NSRS The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has revised an important technical document on the modernized National Spatial Reference System (NSRS). Zilkoski explores a use case on flood mapping, discussing an Elevation Certificate example, Flood Insurance Rate Map and Flood Insurance Study. NGS has scheduled a webinar for April 8 to discuss the four use case examples.  In February 2021, the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) revised NOAA Technical Report NOS NGS 67 Blueprint for the Modernized NSRS, Part 3: Working in the Modernized NSRS. Users c...

“Sometimes I wish I could move to another state where there’s no water around,” she said. The water is a constant, creeping threat in Atlantic City, where the sea level rise has caused an increase in sunny day flooding. These days, it only takes a particularly high tide, which reaches more than a foot higher than it did a century ago, for water to spill onto the city’s streets. As many as 1,640 affordable housing units in New Jersey are vulnerable to coastal flooding at least once per year, according to an analysis led by scientists at Climate Central, a Princeton-based non-advoc...