Coastal Basics
This is the approximate number of miles of tidal shoreline found in Georgia.
What is 3,400 miles?
This is the floodplain area that has a 1% annual chance of flooding.
What is a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)?
Federal flood insurance is generally required for properties located in these areas when financed by federally backed mortgages.
What are Special Flood Hazard Areas?
This is one example of green infrastructure used to manage stormwater naturally.
What is a rain garden, bioswale, living shoreline, permeable pavement, or rain barrel?
This federal agency manages the National Flood Insurance Program.
What is FEMA?
This is the approximate number of miles of sandy beaches found in Georgia.
What is 105 miles?
This term describes the predicted water elevation during a base flood event.
What is Base Flood Elevation (BFE)?
This national program provides federally backed flood insurance to participating communities.
What is the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)?
This is what often happens to local mosquito populations when wetlands are drained instead of preserved.
What is an increase in mosquito problems?
This Georgia agency should be contacted before clearing land or building near marshes and beaches.
What is the Georgia DNR Coastal Resources Division (CRD)?
Georgia experiences this type of tidal cycle, with one high and one low tide each day.
What is diurnal tides?
This type of flooding occurs when intense rainfall overwhelms drainage systems even if rivers do not overflow.
What is pluvial flooding?
This is Georgia’s general approach to flood-history disclosure in residential real estate transactions.
What is voluntary disclosure / buyer beware?
Wetlands reduce flooding by functioning like this household item.
What is a sponge?
This FEMA-related program rewards communities with flood insurance discounts for stronger floodplain management.
What is the Community Rating System (CRS)?
About this fraction of the East Coast’s salt marshes are located in Georgia.
What is one-third (⅓)?
This term describes flooding caused by multiple factors such as rain, tides, storm surge, and river flooding occurring together.
What is compound flooding?
These professionals commonly identify flood risk before closing.
Who are appraisers, surveyors, title companies, or lenders?
According to the presentation, trees may increase residential property values by approximately this percentage.
What is 3–7%?
This 1972 federal law established the National Estuarine Research Reserve System.
What is the Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)?
This geographic feature helps create Georgia’s unusually large tidal range.
What is the South Atlantic Bight?
Approximately this percentage of NFIP flood claims occur outside Special Flood Hazard Areas.
What is 20%?
These factors often reduce the market value of homes located in flood-prone areas.
What are higher insurance costs, financing challenges, and future flood risk?
Over a 20-year period, green infrastructure saved the Southeast approximately this amount in damages.
What is $50 billion?
These are examples of local planning documents used to improve community resilience.
What are Comprehensive Plans, Future Land Use Maps, Stormwater Management Plans, or Flood Damage Prevention Ordinances?