A trained technician will locate your property and verify its location within the flood zone. If you are located outside the City of Shreveport and beyond the MPC (five miles outside City limits) and would like to know if a parcel is in a flood zone, contact the Public Works Department (318) 226-6934. Request a flood zone determination or view the flood maps by clicking on the flood map to the right or by calling Seamus Riley at (504) 736-6441. Yenni Office Building or your local library. The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using geographic projection and decimal degree coordinate system. Maps that show flood hazard areas are on file at the Joseph S.
The Flood Maps identify Special Flood Hazard Areas and base flood elevations of specific sites.įor more information, visit the FEMA Know Your Risk page. These maps depict the potential for flooding and are the basis for establishing building requirements and flood insurance rates. Description: Abstract: The Q3 Flood Data are derived from the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Using the FEMA Flood Map Service Center residents can view Flood Maps using an address, a place, or longitude/latitude coordinates. Flood maps, known officially as Flood Insurance Rate Maps, show areas of high- and moderate- to low-flood risk. Twelve of the sixteen Presidential Declarations Caddo Parish has received resulted from either tropical cyclones (5 declarations) or flooding(7 declarations), which validates these as the most significant hazards.įlooding can occur anywhere in Caddo Parish.
The potential destructive power of tropical cyclones and flooding were determined to be the most prevalent hazards to the parish. Flood Zone - New vs Old The FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) is used in real estate, mortgage, and flood insurance transactions and in regulating and issuing permits for building and other development. This interactive map application provides the current progress of BLE development throughout the state.
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