DFIRM definition

DFIRM means a digital version of the Flood Insurance Rate Map. DFIRMs may contain additional information not normally available on the paper map.

Examples of DFIRM in a sentence

  • It is anticipated that a county-wide effort to update and modernize FEMA flood maps in Sedgwick County to digital D-FIRM standards compliant with ESRI geodatabase, including the City of Wichita, will be underway at the time the construction of the new KTA RCB is complete; if this is the case, the efforts required to submit the Big Slough South LOMR will be included in the (separate) county-wide FEMA remapping Scope of Services.

  • FNI will compile report chapters previously developed, an executive summary, graphics, cost estimates, appendices, DFIRM database, and other digital information into a draft final report.

  • These crossings were modeled using one dimensional (1D), steady flow HEC-RAS during the Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) update.

  • FEMA will distribute the Revised Preliminary DFIRM panels to your community for review as soon as the production is complete.

  • On [Date Preliminary DFIRM Distributed], FEMA provided your community with the Preliminary DFIRM and FIS report.

  • The ENGINEER will review the preliminary FEMA D-FIRM maps to account for anticipated changes in the effective floodplain.

  • We understand that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the process of providing an updated flood map, termed a Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM), for (County or Community Name) and that the area behind the levee known as (Name of Levee) will be remapped to reflect that the levee has been designated as a PAL.

  • As part of the FEMA effort to produce the Preliminary DFIRM, areas in the vicinity of (Name of Embankment) were initially identified as not subject to the 1-percent-annual-chance (base) flood event.