Risk MAP Potpourri
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FEMA Flood Related Products and Programs
Risk MAP Acronyms
100
Risk MAP is to deliver quality data that increases public awareness and leads to action that reduces risk to life and property. Risk MAP builds on flood hazard data and maps produced during the Flood Map Modernization (Map Mod) program.
What is the Risk MAP vision?
100
An elongated, naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels. It is usually earthen and often parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlines.
What is a levee?
100
Graham Bouchoux
Who is the Booz Allen Team Project Director?
100
The official map of a community on which FEMA has delineated both the special hazard areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.
What is a Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)?
100
The "MAP" in Risk MAP.
What is Mapping, Assessment, and Planning?
200
The initiative helps communities showcase their local flooding history and motivate their residents to take action by posting signs in prominent places to show how high flood waters have risen in the past.
What is the High Water Mark Initiative?
200
An area near a river or a stream which floods when the water level reaches flood stage
What is a floodplain?
200
Will Meyer
Who is the Booz Allen Team Regional Director?
200
This FEMA Risk MAP product allows local community officials to use technological and software advances to view and analyze their community with a new perspective since the last FIRM.
What is the Changes Since Last FIRM (CSLF) product?
200
CTP
What are Cooperating Technical Partners?
300
This shows different degrees of risk for a community, which helps determine the cost of flood insurance.
What is a flood hazard map?
300
A barrier that impounds water or underground streams
What is a dam?
300
Matt Southern
Who is the Booz Allen Team Deputy Project Director and Program Management Lead? *He is also the Program Area Lead for A1 and B.
300
This non-regulatory product helps communities better understand the impact of multiple physical factors on the floodplain elevation and extent. This enhanced spatial dataset identifies conditions within a flood risk project area (watershed or otherwise) that may contribute to the severity of the flood hazard and associated losses.
What is an Areas of Mitigation Interest (AOMI) dataset?
300
FIRM
What is Flood Insurance Rate Map?
400
Fast melting snow, severe storms and heavy rainfall are all causes of this type of event.
What is a flood?
400
A general and temporary condition where two or more acres of normally dry land or two or more properties are inundated by water or mudflow.
What is a flood?
400
Doug Bellomo
Who is the Risk Analysis Division Director?
400
This is a voluntary incentive program that recognizes communities for implementing floodplain management practices that exceed the Federal minimum requirements of the NFIP to provide protection from flooding.
What is the Community Rating System (CRS)?
400
BFE
What is Base Flood Elevation?
500
Identified by FEMA, these are land areas described in terms of its risk of flooding. Everyone lives in a in one of these areas–it's just a question of whether you live in a low, moderate, or high risk area.
What are flood zones?
500
The area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place.
What is a watershed?
500
Kelly Bronowicz
Who is the FEMA Risk MAP D Program Area Manager (PAM)?
500
This non-regulatory product provides stakeholders with a comprehensive understanding of flood hazard and risk exposure within their community, watershed, or other geographic area. It parallels the Flood Insurance Study report by providing a narrative of the flood risk assessment methodology and results.
What is a Flood Risk Report?
500
FIMA NFIP
What is Flood Insurance and Mitigation Administration National Flood Insurance Program?
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