The National Flood Insurance Program's Community Rating System is designed to recognize and reward communities such as Pima County that work to reduce flood damages through various floodplain management and flood awareness activities.
The National Flood Insurance Program is a federal program that enables property owners to purchase flood insurance and is intended to curb escalating costs of repairing flood-damaged buildings and their contents.
Risk Rating 2.0 will fundamentally change the way the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rates a property’s flood risk and prices insurance by incorporating common sense variables into the rating methodology.
Generalmente, los seguros de casa y negocios no cubren los daños debidos a inundación. Por lo tanto, se requiere el seguro contra inundaciones que es una póliza separada.