Description: Flood Zones (2018) are the flood insurance risk zone designation. These zones are used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to designate Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAs) and for insurance rating purposes. See FEMA's resources page at http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2206 for more details. Map layer symbology is based on FEMA's Flood Data Symbology page at https://hazards.fema.gov/femaportal/resources/symbology.htm
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Description: Floodway (2018) areas are designated by FEMA and adopted by communities to provide an area that will remain free of development to moderate increases in flood heights due to encroachment on the floodplain. See FEMA's resources page at http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2206 for more details.
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Description: The land area covered by the floodwaters of the base flood is the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) on NFIP maps (2018). The SFHA is the area where the NFIP's floodplain management regulations must be enforced and the area where the mandatory purchase of flood insurance applies. The SFHA includes Zones A, AO, AH, A1-30, AE, A99, AR, AR/A1-30, AR/AE, AR/AO, AR/AH, AR/A, VO, V1-30, VE, and V. See FEMA's resources page at http://www.fema.gov/library/viewRecord.do?id=2206 for more details.
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