MoversAtlas Blog » flood zones http://www.moversatlas.com/blog MoversAtlas Blog Sat, 23 May 2026 12:52:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 Florida Flood Zone Map Now Available on the MoversAtlas MoveMap! http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/florida-flood-zone-map-now-available-moversatlas-movemap/ http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/florida-flood-zone-map-now-available-moversatlas-movemap/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:46:50 +0000 MoversAtlas http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/?p=421 The MoversAtlas team has been hard at work over the past few months and we are now excited to announce that the move map now has a flood zone map for the state of Florida! The new flood zone feature can be turned on by going to the MoveMap page and then clicking on the Heat Maps section on the left hand side and then turning on the flood zones radio button. Once you have the flood zones turned on you will see an overlay of four different shades of color appear on the map, red being the highest risk

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]]> http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/florida-flood-zone-map-now-available-moversatlas-movemap/feed/ 0 Should You Worry About Your House Being in a Flood Zone? http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/worry-house-flood-zone/ http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/worry-house-flood-zone/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:28:31 +0000 MoversAtlas http://www.moversatlas.com/blog/?p=116 Flood zones are land areas identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Each flood zone describes that land area in terms of its risk of flooding. To identify a community’s flood risk, FEMA conducts a Flood Insurance Study. This study includes statistical data for river flow, storm tides, hydrologic/hydraulic analyses, and rainfall and topographic surveys. All of this information is used to create what is known as FIRMs (Flood Insurance Rate Maps). This is used to not only rate areas in terms of flood risk but also to determine the resulting flood insurance rates. The important thing to remember

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