Funding: Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Committee Overlap: All.
To scope, develop, disseminate, and analyze responses to the local floodplain management assessment.
As more communities enter into the NFIP, adapt to climate change, and deal with rising and changing flood insurance rates with the implementation of Risk Rating 2.0 (and other potential reforms to the NFIP program), it is important to understand the status of floodplain management at the local level as well as long term trends.
The Association of State Floodplain Managers last updated their dataset and report on the state of local floodplain management programs in 2016. That effort, the inaugural report on the state of local floodplain management programs throughout our nation, provided insight into local floodplain managers and local floodplain management programs’ practices, capacity and challenges. It complimented previous reports issued in 1989, 1992, 1995, 2003, and 2010 that were primarily focused on floodplain management programs at the state level. It is intended that the data collected for and the analysis shared through these reports will be a useful reference for those in the floodplain management community interested in local programs throughout the United States.
The objective of this project is to:
- Assess and make public, by way of a report, the status of local level floodplain management in the United States as of 2023, and
- Maintain the supporting data in a database for long-term use in evaluating what local programs are doing in the floodplain management arena. This data can assist communities to utilize increasingly effective approaches (i.e. No Adverse Impact (NAI), adaptation measures, etc.
These objectives are compatible with FEMA’s goals of flood loss reduction and the overall mission of ASFPM to promote education, policies and activities that mitigate current and future losses, costs and human suffering caused by flooding. This effort can also complement and inform FEMA’s own initiative to educate communities about higher floodplain management standards.
The report will be a summary or snapshot on what local programs are currently doing in the floodplain management arena. It will assess current trends and highlight best practices for good floodplain management. By sharing this information, all can benefit and continue to build strong and sustainable floodplain management programs.