#FEMA FLOOD ZONES DEFINITIONS PDF#

is a New Jersey mapping company leveraging 20 years of mapping experience, collections of parcel mapping, tax maps, filed sub-division maps and engineering drawings to identify, in real space, property boundaries in New Jersey. NJ Property Fax has all its Tidelands searches performed by Western Technologies Group, LLC. GIS allows us to view, understand question, interpret, and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports, and charts. X – Areas determined to be outside the 0.2% annual chance floodplain.ĭ – Areas in which flood hazards are undetermined, but possible.Ī Geographic Information System (GIS) integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information. X (0.2 percent annual chance) – Areas of 0.2% annual chance flood areas of 1% annual chance flood with average depths of less than 1 foot or with drainage areas less than 1 square mile and areas protected by levees from 1% annual chance flood. OTHER (Zones which are NOT designated as Special Flood Hazard Areas) Zone VE – Coastal flood zone with velocity hazard (wave action) Base Flood Elevations determined. Zone V – Coastal flood zone with velocity (wave action) no Base Flood Elevations determined. Zone A99 – Area to be protected from 1% annual chance flood by a Federal flood protection system under construction no Base Flood Elevations determined. Zone AR indicates that the former flood control system is being restored to provide protection from the 1% annual chance or greater flood.

Zone AR – Special Flood Hazard Area formerly protected from the 1% annual chance flood by a flood control system that was subsequently decertified. For areas of alluvial fan flooding, velocities also determined. Zone AO – Flood Depths of 1 to 3 feet (usually sheet flow on sloping terrain) average depths determined. Zone AH – Flood depths of 1 to 3 feet (usually areas of ponding) Base Flood Elevations determined. Zone AE – Base Flood Elevations determined. Zone A – No Base Flood Elevations determined. SFHAs (Special Flood Hazard Area designated zones) The Base Flood Elevation is the water-surface elevation of the 1% annual flood. Areas of Special Flood Hazard include Zones A, AE, AH, AO, AR, A99, V, and VE. The Special Flood Hazard Area is the area subject to flooding by the 1% annual chance flood. The 1% annual flood (100 year flood), also known as the base flood, is the flood that has a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. Using the latest GIS (Geographic Information System) technology and most currently available information from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) NJPF will provide a complete, fully insured report on the selected property.įlood Determination - Questions and Answers (show/hide all) The report consists of the following map overlays:

#FEMA FLOOD ZONES DEFINITIONS PDF#

A report in PDF form is emailed to you within 24 hours most reports are completed within a few hours. Hours of time and money can be saved by Real Estate Professionals, home buyers and sellers by performing a Flood Search.Ī Flood search is a comprehensive analysis of structures and property boundaries to determine which Flood zones may apply. NJ Property Fax offers a simple cost effective way of ensuring that you are informed about the risk of flooding on a property.

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Fema flood zones definitions