FLOOD00938

• County: Statewide
• Title: Guide to Flood Insurance Rate Maps
• Date: 5/1/1988
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

APPENDIX A

HOW TO OBTAIN A FIRM

Copies of effective FIRMs are made
available by FEMA, and a nominal cost
may be charged. To obtain a copy of the
current FIRM for a specific community,
you may write to the Flood Map
Oistribution Center (FMDC) at the
following address:

Federal Emergency Management Agency
Flood Map Distribution Center
6930 (A-F) San Tomas Road
Baltimore, Maryland 21227-6227

Vou may also call the FMDC directly, at

1 [phone].

Before you contact the FMDC, you should
review the current FIRM on file at the
local community map repository and
obtain the following information:

1. Full name of the community shown on
the FIRM (including city, town, village,
etc.; county; and state) and

2a. For a Flat FIRM the NFIP community
identification number, appearing in the
title box of the FIRM Index, or

b. For a non-countywide Hold FIRM the
community-panel number that appears in
the title box of each panel covering the
portion of the community in which you
are interested, or

c. For a countywide FIRM the map
number that appears in the title box of

each panel covering the pOrlion of the
community in which you are interested.

Generally, for multiple-panel FIRMs, the
FMDC will provide copies of specific
panels rather than a copy of the entire
FIRM.

Before you order FIRM panels, you should
also be aware of the following:

. The portion of the community in which
you are interested may be covered by a
panel that is not printed. If so, a note on
the FIRM Index will explain why the
panel is not printed. The most common
reason a panel is not printed is that it
covers an area entirely within one insur-
ance zone (usually Zone C or Zone X).

. The area in which you are interested
may not be within the community whose
FIRM you are reviewing. A post office
address for a property may include the
name of a nearby incorporated
community even though the property is
actually in the unincorporated area at
the surrounding county. Vou may
therefore find it necessary to review the
FIRM for the county, which is available
at the county map repository.

. Also, areas recently annexed by a
community may not appear on the FIRM
for that community. To obtain flooding
informafion for those areas, you should
obtain the FIRM for the community from
which the areas were annexed.

Once you have obtained Items 1 and 2,
you can contact the FMDC and order the
panels you need.

If you cannot find a copy of the current
FIRM and therefore cannof identify the
FIRM panel you need, you may request
that the FMDC provide you with a copy of
the FIRM Index. Vou can use the Index
as described in the preceding section to
identify the panel you need.