New Flood Maps

The Preliminary Flood Maps are Not in Effect.

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) released a preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) on December 30, 2019. The City, working closely with Fair Insurance Rates in Monroe (F.I.R.M.), engaged professional engineers to analyze FEMA's work and has filed a community-wide appeal. 

Appeal Status

The City awaits FEMA's review of the appeal, which was submitted in May of 2021. FEMA is under no specific timeline to respond to appeals. When the first correspondence occurs, it'll likely be a technical inquiry regarding the appeal data, followed by a further examination period of undetermined length. 

Once FEMA has worked through all the appeals, a Letter of Final Determination will be issued.

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Flood Map Appeal Overview (interactive) 

An interactive overview of the City's pending appeal to FEMA's proposed new flood maps.

Zoom... pan... and swipe across these maps to view any area within the City.

Note  -  Works best with Firefox. Edge or Wave browsers.


 

YouTube Presentation - Flood Maps Appeal

A 23-minute video presentation using the interactive online maps above to examine the City's flood maps appeal.		Youtube example thumbnail image for link to appeal video Opens in new window

Example Draft Flood Map Impacts

View FEMA's Preliminary Flood Maps & City's Impact Maps


Notes: FEMA's raw new flood maps don't show an additional difference in elevation due to changing mapping standards between the old and proposed new flood maps; the difference equals -1.342 feet (yes, "minus").  To account for this change, add one foot to any apparent increase.  These City produced impact maps have already accounted for this difference.