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FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) Information

Map Modernization:

FEMA's Map Modernization Plan goals and objectives are to upgrade the 100,000 panel flood map inventory by:

• Developing up-to-date flood hazard data for all flood prone areas nationwide to support sound floodplain management and prudent flood insurance decisions
• Providing the maps and data in digital format to improve the efficiency and precision with which mapping program customers can use this information
• Fully integrating FEMA's community and state partners into the mapping process to build on local knowledge and efforts
• Improving processes to make it faster to create and update the maps
• Improving customer services to speed processing of flood map orders and raise public awareness of flood hazards

Washington State digital flood data
 

FEMA web links:

• FEMA home
• FEMA Flood Hazard Mapping
• FEMA Map Modernization
• FEMA National Flood Insurance Program
• FEMA FloodSmart.gov

FEMA publications:

• National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) - 3 pages, 27kb. pdf.
• Cooperating Technical Communities (CTC) Guidance Document - 7 pages, 37kb. pdf.
• CTC Question and Answer Document - 5 pages, 19kb. pdf.
• "FIRMette" scanned flood map image - 2 pages, 509kb. pdf.
• Floodplain Managers Guidebook - 43 page, 956 kb. pdf.