Flood Basics

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Emergency Management Services

For flood insurance information and flood protection information, click on the following links: Federal Emergency Management Agency ... www.volusia.org/emergency/

Flood Basics

Flood frequencies, such as the "100-year flood," are determined by plotting a graph of the size of all known floods for an area and determining how often ... www.volusia.org/emergency/flood.htm

Flood Protection Tips

Floodplains serve as natural drainage basins and provide flood storage ... If you know that a flood is coming, move valuable contents upstairs or to a safe ... www.volusia.org/emergency/Flood%20Protection%20Tips.pdf

Volusia County Flood Hazards

In eastern portions of the county, most of the flood prone areas feature relatively ... The Volusia County Flood Threat Recognition System, located at the ... www.volusia.org/emergency/FloodThreatRecognition.pdf

Floodplain definitions

Flood Zone - A designation assigned by FEMA defining the various flooding ... All lands are given a Flood Zone designation, but the term Flood Zone is ... www.volusia.org/emergency/definitions.htm

Volusia County Disaster Preparedness Guide

For example, people living in manufactured housing, mobile homes, flood prone areas or hurricane storm surge zones must prepare differently from those who ... www.volusia.org/storm/

How to prepare for floods

Florida's east coast may not seem like a flood-prone region these days, but there have been times in the not-so-distant past when whole neighborhoods in ... www.volusia.org/storm/floods.htm

Flood Insurance

Do I have flood insurance? Chances are, you don't. Homeowners insurance does not cover flooding. But residents can purchase separate policies that do. ... www.volusia.org/storm/Flood_insure.htm

Flood insurance - Volusia County

Check your policy for flood and windstorm coverage. Standard homeowners policies do not cover flood damage caused by rising water. There is a 30-day waiting ... www.volusia.org/storm/insure.htm

Geographic Information Service

Click here to view. Online Interactive Maps · Click here for FEMA Flood Information Mapping. ... www.volusia.org/gis/

Current 100 Year flood plain map … http://maps.vcgov.org/FloodMaps/FloodZonesCurrent.pdf

Preliminary 100 Year flood plain map … http://maps.vcgov.org/FloodMaps/FloodZonesPreliminary.pdf

Volusia/Flagler Public Information Network

Flood preparedness and health tips. Flood preparedness · After a flood cleaning ... Precautionary measures to deal with mosquitoes after a flood ... www.volusia.org/pin/default.htm

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Flood Statistics

	As little as one foot of (moving) water can move most cars off the road.
	Just six inches of fast-moving flood water can sweep a person off his or her feet.
	Most flood-related deaths occur at night and are vehicular.
	Urban and small stream flash floods often occur in less than one hour.
	Tropical cyclones pose significant risk well inland due to fresh water flooding.