

You can print that page, or email it to a friend, relative, colleague or client.
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It tells you how to contact the floodplain official for your jurisdiction. The narrative also tells you whether the point is (or is not) in the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA, often referred to as "the flood zone") and tells you the insurance and building permit implications of being in that zone, if it was the Effective FIRM.

You will get a narrative description of the flood-related information for your point based on the proposed FIRM.

The What Does This Mean page opens a new tab in your browser. The Point Info box provides data read from the proposed FIRM (including the flood zone), and from other sources.Ĭlick on the "What Does This Mean" tab at the bottom of the Point Info box The system will drop a pin wherever you click the map and display a Point Information box for that point. (Use the Points Tool).Ĭlick the map exactly at your point of interest (on your house, on the yard in front of the house, at the corner of your property). Pan and Zoom to find the exact location you wantĬlear any pins you've dropped on the map while navigating. The system will display an aerial photograph of the area with roads overlaid. Also on the layers tool, you can uncheck the box by "Preliminary" or "Future" FIRM to turn that layer off while you look at the aerial photo. Turn on the Bing Hybrid (aerial photo and road map) and locate your property. The system will place a pin in the map where it determines the address should be (or where the coordinates are.) It will zoom to that location and produce a Point Information box, with the point identified by its lat/long coordinates. If you do not have an address or coordinates, close the search tool and go to step 3. You can search for an address or for a "latitude, longitude" coordinate pair. Sign up here to be notified when the map or map status for a parish changes.įind your property using the Search Tool. The parishes listed here are those with proposed FIRMS. The Search Tool will be displayed on the screen. Close those to see the entire proposed FIRM for your selected parish overlaid on a Bing Road map. You will see a welcome screen and a "Preliminary" alert screen.
