What are flood zone maps?
Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) show what areas of the community are at a greater risk of flooding. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) first mapped the flood risk in the Las Vegas Valley in the mid-1980s. Our population at that time was just over 500,000 today our population is about 2 million. Many changes and growth in our community have happened since that time. As the Regional Flood Control District designs and builds flood control improvements, detailed analysis of an area is studied. Most of the time with the completion of flood control projects, the improvements lower the flood risk enough to remove high risk flood zones. FEMA is the final determination regarding the type of flood zone an area is designated.
