Eastern Shore - Flood Insurance Map Updates - Open House Sessions

New Flood Insurance Maps for Dorchester, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties – What to expect and how to help your clients and citizens.

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is updating its Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) for Dorchester, Somerset, and Wicomico Counties. FEMA expects these new maps to become effective in the summer of 2010. Before then citizens and NFIP policy holders can take action that may reduce their flood insurance costs.

To help our NFIP Stakeholders prepare for these new flood maps and understand the full implications of these map changes, FEMA will hold two Open House sessions for the professionals that work in the National Flood Insurance Program. We invite all surveyors, real estate agents, insurance agents, lenders, municipal officials, and others to learn about the map change process. Topics we will cover include Map Grandfathering, Options to Appeal Floodplain Determinations, Insurance Documentation Requirements, and answer your questions.

WorWic Community College November 19, 2009, 4:00 to 6:00 PM – We will meet in Henson Hall, Room 105.

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, the Richard A. Henson Center, November 20, 2009, 1:00 to 5:00 PM – We will meet on the second floor in Room 2126/28.

These Open House Sessions will be hosted by Dave Odegard, CPCU, AIC, the FEMA Region III’s Insurance Specialist, david.odegard@dhs.gov.