Resources

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) – www.fema.gov

FEMA is an independent federal agency with headquarters in Washington D.C. , regional and area offices across the country. FEMA works in partnership with other federal, state and local organizations to plan and coordinate the nation's emergency management system. FEMA's responsibilities include preparing flood insurance rate maps, advising communities on building codes and floodplain management, administering the National Flood Insurance Program, coordinating the federal response to disasters, making disaster assistance funds available to states, communities, businesses and individuals and much more.

Flood Zone Correction, Inc. works with FEMA every day to facilitate the correction of inaccurate flood zone determinations.

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) – www.fema.gov/nfip

The NFIP is a federal program enabling property owners in participating communities to purchase insurance protection against losses from flooding. Participation in the NFIP is based on an agreement between local communities and the federal government that provides the availability of flood insurance as long as communities adopt and enforce a floodplain management ordinance to reduce future flood risks.

Flood Zone Correction, Inc. performs flood risk analyses on its clients' homes and buildings to compare the flood risk for an individual insured structure to FEMA's flood insurance study and the local floodplain ordinances for that respective community.

Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM) – www.floods.org

The Association of State Floodplain Managers is an organization of professionals involved in floodplain management, flood hazard mitigation, the National Flood Insurance Program, and flood preparedness, warning and recovery. ASFPM professionals actively manage flood zone issues around the country.

Flood Zone Correction, Inc. works with floodplain managers in communities throughout the nation to maintain up-to-date information about floodplain ordinances and flood map issues.