MoversAtlas Blog » should you worry about your house being in a fllod zone 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 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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