News & Outreach
- Resources for outreach programs
We encourage your community to develop an outreach program if you do not already have one in place. Through outreach, you can make citizens more aware of their true flood risk so they can make better-informed decisions. This also makes for a safer, more resilient environment that will mitigate or reduce future flood losses and the need for community assistance, including local flood response and recovery efforts. Encouraging residents and business owners in your community to purchase flood insurance will make your community more resilient. There are social media templates and other resources provided by FEMA that can be found and downloaded at agents.floodsmart.gov/marketing/resource-library. Please help increase the outreach being done during the current spring flood insurance outreach campaign by placing information about flood insurance on your community’s web and social media sites.
- Flood Insurance office hours available
Starting April 29, James Sink, Region V flood insurance liaison and staff will be available via Zoom on the last Friday of each month from 10 to 11 a.m. CT for Flood Insurance Office Hours to answer questions you, local officials, and residents may have about flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program. A breakout room will be used to help mitigate concerns about Personally Identifiable Information (PII). No registration is required.
If there is sufficient demand, they may be able to hold office hours more frequently or extend the time beyond one hour.
Additional details:
Topic: FEMA Region 5 Flood Insurance Office Hours
Time: April 29, 2022, at 10 a.m. CT (US and Canada)
Every month on the Last Friday, until Dec. 30, 2022, 9 occurrence(s)
April 29, May 27, June 24, July 29, Aug. 26, Sept. 30, Oct. 28, Nov. 25, & Dec. 30, 2022, all sessions begin at 10 a.m. CT
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
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- FEMA releases Rate Explanation and Discount guides
FEMA has also recently released the “Rate Explanation” and “Discount” guides to help citizens understand how the premiums are determined and discounted for a Standard Flood Insurance Policy (SFIP). Recent changes to the rating methodology have made these guides even more helpful. The guides are available at agents.floodsmart.gov/agents-guide/risk-rating