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FEMA will notify the community that the maps should be considered final through a Letter of Final Determination (LFD). Appeal requests will be reviewed and submitted to FEMA.Īfter the appeal period has passed, FEMA and its partners will finalize the maps.

Appeal requests should be submitted to: or Hanover County Department of Public Works P.O.

The appeal timeline will be updated on this webpage once the dates are known. During this period, the community has the opportunity to submit appeals, supported by engineering data, related to discrepancies in the flood hazard data that they noticed in the preliminary flood maps. After that meeting, a 90 day appeal period will begin.

In the coming months, FEMA and its partners will hold a meeting with Hanover County officials to discuss the preliminary maps. An additional resource for property owners, both with and without a mortgage, is, which provides information about the National Flood Insurance Policy (NFIP) and the costs of flood insurance. We recommend that you use this time to contact your insurance agent and learn about options offered by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). We recommend all owners in a SFHA obtain flood insurance. If you have a mortgage from a federally regulated lender and your property is in the SFHA, you are required by Federal law to carry flood insurance when these flood maps are put into effect. SFHA’s are subject to inundation by the 1-percent-annual chance flood (Zone A & AE). While reviewing the preliminary maps, we encourage you to determine whether or not your property falls within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). Please use this time to understand your property’s flood risk and research your flood insurance options. The online viewer also includes changes to the 500-yr floodplain 'Non-Special Flood Hazard Area' (Zone X, also known as the 0.2-percent-annual chance flood hazard), which is for informational use only and not required for flood insurance purposes. If you do not know what your GPIN is you can click on your parcel in the Hanover County GIS online parcel viewer.Īnother resource is FEMA's Flood Map Changes Viewer which also lets you compare the current and proposed floodplain maps.You can search by address or other property identifier called a GPIN.The 100-year floodplain, also known as the 1-percent-annual chance flood hazard 'Special Flood Hazard Area', includes both Zone A (100-year) and Zone AE (100-year with elevations). Hanover has created a FEMA Floodzone Changes application which shows the preliminary (proposed) and existing 100-year floodplain.

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Otherwise, feel free to explore the mapping applications below for informational purposes. If your property is affected by these changes, you will receive a letter from Hanover County in the coming months. Please be aware these maps are still preliminary and show an early look at your property’s projected flood risk. The new maps, known as Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), have been released for public view. Please consult with your local, county, and/or community floodplain administrator for availability of official DFIRMs in your county.The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has recently completed a multi-year project re-examining Hanover County’s floodplain maps. The user of this information should always consult official FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and certified elevation data if there is any doubt of a property's flood risk. WVDHSEM and their Agents or Affiliates do not guarantee the accuracy or reliability of the data generated from this service.

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The user assumes full responsibility for any risks or damages resulting from any use of or reliance upon this data. The user of this information understands and acknowledges that the data may be inaccurate or contain errors or omissions and Mapping Services provided by the WV Flood Tool herein are for reference only. Map features are connected to geospatial databases that may be queried by users in order to obtain pertinent information that may otherwiseīe difficult to obtain or relate to specific geographic locations. This application depicts 1% annual chance floodplain boundaries in an online map environment. The West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

The West Virginia Flood Tool is an interactive web map application developed by the West Virginia GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC) with funding from