Flood Risk Solutions

Flood Risk Solutions, LLC (FRS) offers a comprehensive Flood Map Revision Service to coastal condominium associations and owners of other types of coastal buildings located in FEMA-designated Special Flood Hazard Areas that begin with the letter V, such as VE or V01-V30. These V zones are areas where FEMA projects a 100year flood event will cause n... ot only widespread inundation by floodwater, but also where velocity wave action from the storm surge may cause structural damage to buildings in its path. According to FEMA, V zones are the highest risk flood zones with the most substantial flood risk. If your building is located in a V zone, then your association or you are probably paying a very high premium for your National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) flood policy and theres a good chance that FRS can help you to substantially reduce your NFIP flood premium. FRS Flood Map Revision Service is performed by FRS coastal engineering team, which is a highly specialized group of coastal engineers who specialize in developing Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) on behalf of FEMA for coastal areas. During each flood map revision project, our coastal engineering team performs a detailed flood insurance study to determine the impact a 100year flood event will have on your parcel of land, based on new data that is more recent and accurate than the data used by FEMA to create the current effective FIRM for your community that shows your building in a V zone. By using more recent and accurate data, and the same wave modeling and mapping techniques as FEMA, our flood study is far more accurate that the flood study that was used to create the V zone on the current FIRM. Over 80% of the new flood studies FRS performs show that the flood risk is substantially less than what FEMA reflects on its current FIRM. This means that 80% of the time the flood zones and 100-year flood elevation for our clients parcel of land change to lower risk zones that deliver substantially lower flood premiums. Over 80% of the cases show results that ...Read More