Websites

• Flood Risk Profiles
  How does a community determine local flood risks? And how does it inform local residents of that risk?? Counties, dam owners, and riverside communities need to inform nearby residents of local flood risk and ways to avoid damage. Following are state examples of Flood Risk Profiles from Sacramento, California and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

• Flood Risk Scenarios
  Provides “click-through” flood scenarios resulting from snowmelt, flash flooding, new development, dam and levee failure, and tropical storms.


• The International Hurricane Research Center
  Focuses interdisciplinary resources on mitigating hurricane damage to people, the economy, and natural and development environments (includes links to each of the IHRC's four laboratories-Coastal Research; Social and Behavioral Research; Insurance, Financial, and Economic Research; and Structural Mitigation).


• The Public Entity Risk Institute
  Provides risk management education and training resources; operates a national risk data exchange to foster development, collection, and analysis of loss data; offers grants and sponsors research to promote innovation in risk management; and operates an Enterprise Investment Program that supports the development of innovative risk management products and services.


• www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood
  Offers visitors a range of resources including a Resources page and Teacher's Guide as well as a NOVA program called "Megaflood" which explores how study of the catastrophic flood that struck eastern Washington thousands of years ago has relevance today.


• NFIP Bureau and Statistical Agent's Training Website
  Offers agent training modules that present information fundamental to servicing flood insurance policies, including topics such as Elevation Certificates, claims processes, Increased Cost of Compliance coverage, writing commercial and condominium policies, the Community Rating System, and marketing.


• www.naic.org
  Provides a portal for linked sites on a broad range of topics, from flood insurance training to interstate insurance compacts.


• NFIP Direct Servicing Agent
  Provides more than 20 publications and forms used in servicing NFIP policies.


• Flood Insurance Manual
  Provides all of the rate and rule information about the National Flood Insurance Program.


• Community Status Book
  Supplies information about all of the communities that participate in the National Flood Insurance Program.


• National Flood Determination Association
  Promotes the interests and success of members involved in the making, distributing and reselling of flood zone determinations.

• National Geographic
  Includes an entire section devoted to floods and dams where visitors can click on several tabs to browse through information about the causes and effects of flooding and how flood risk can be reduced by building dams.


• Earth Observatory
  Provides new satellite imagery and scientific information about the Earth, with a focus on Earth’s climate and environmental change.


• USGS Natural Hazards-Floods
  Describes how natural processes, such as hurricanes, weather systems, and snowmelt, can cause floods.


• The NOAA National Weather Service
  Describes how the NWS provides local and regional forecasts and emergency alerts for severe storms, hurricanes, floods, winter storms, tsunamis, and other weather-related hazards.


• WaterWatch
  Provides information regarding the conditions of current water resources in the United States.


• National Weather Service Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services
  Describes free, accurate forecast products that display the magnitude and uncertainty of occurrence of floods or droughts, from hours to days and months, in advance.


• Federal Alliance for Safe Homes (FLASH)
  Produces educational materials and programs for consumers and building professionals about the importance of strengthening homes and safeguarding families from disaster.

• Flood Hazard Mapping
  Provides information about Flood Map Modernization, the Multi-Year Flood Hazard Identification Plan, recent map changes, status of requests for Base Flood Elevation changes, and more.


• Flood Map Modernization
  Explains FEMA's strategy for modernizing Flood Insurance Rate Maps and includes links to the Multi-Year Flood Hazard Identification Plan and the Map Modernization Mid-Course Adjustment documents.


• FEMA's Map Service Center (MSC)
  Allows visitors to view and order flood maps and related studies directly and download them if they are in digital form.

• Association of State Dam Safety Officials
  Sponsors many projects and activities, from providing networking support for the dam safety community, to offering continuing education programs, to making more tools for advancing the safety of dams by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of state dam safety programs available to dam owners.


• NFIP Floodplain Management
  Offers examples of floodplain management measures, describes the Community Assistance Program, and provides links to other related Federal programs.


• CRS Resource Center
  Presents all aspects of the Community Rating System (CRS), a program that reduces flood insurance premiums to reflect what a community does above and beyond the NFIP's minimum standards for floodplain regulation. Includes information about applying to become a CRS community.


• Association of State Floodplain Managers
  Represents the flood hazard specialists of local, state and federal government, the research community, the insurance industry, and the fields of engineering, hydrologic forecasting, emergency response, water resources, and others.

• FEMA Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Terms (FAAT)
  Includes many acronyms, abbreviations, and terms used in FEMA publications, documents, and correspondence.


• NFIP Policy Keyword Index
  Presents an online keyword index to the NFIP insurance policy.


• The National Academies
  Provides resources from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council to address critical national issues and advise the Federal government and the public.


• American Planning Association
  Contains flood-related articles and summaries of various publications and other resources, including abstracts from archived Journal of the American Planning Association articles.


• Hazard Mitigation Planning
  Describes the process States and communities use to identify policies, activities, and tools that can be used to implement mitigation actions.


• Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) Grant Program
  Offers an overview of the PDM program, which provides funds to states, territories, Indian tribal governments, communities, and universities for hazard mitigation planning and the implementation of mitigation projects prior to a disaster event. Includes information about how to apply for a PDM grant.