Base Flood Elevation Maps

Base Flood Elevation Maps. FEMA Flood Maps Explained / ClimateCheck The blue Map View button in the upper right corner will open a second map for side-by-side comparison FEMA provides the technology and relies on your community's leaders to share local knowledge and plans to make the maps as accurate as possible.

🖱️ Click on the map and get/set its Elevation Estimated Base Flood Elevation (BFE) viewer for property owners, community officials and land developers to identify the flood risk (high, moderate, low), expected flood elevation and estimated flood depth near any property or structure within watersheds where Base Level Engineering has been prepared.

Every community that participates in the National Flood Insurance Program has a floodplain administrator who works with FEMA during the mapping process. The blue Map Layers button lets you choose what data you want shown and the type of base map you wish to use FEMA provides the technology and relies on your community's leaders to share local knowledge and plans to make the maps as accurate as possible.

. A base flood is defined as having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, also known as the 100-year flood The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) is a geospatial database that contains current effective flood hazard data

. The blue Map Layers button lets you choose what data you want shown and the type of base map you wish to use Water-surface elevations of the 1-percent annual chance (base) flood are called Base Flood Elevations (BFEs)