Flood hazard definition

Flood hazard means those hazards related to damage from flood-related inundation or erosion.

Flood hazard means the threat of an area being inundated by water due typically to excessive precipitation or obstructions to the natural flow.

Flood hazard means a risk of inundation during or following a 24-hour 100-year storm event. Where available, one-hundred (100) year flood zone mapping by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) may be used for this determination.

Examples of Flood hazard in a sentence

• Flood hazard areas are designated as unnumbered A-Zones and do not contain floodway lines or regional flood elevations.

• Flood hazard boundary maps, flood insurance rate maps, flood boundary-floodway maps, county soil survey maps or other existing county floodplain zoning maps shall be used to delineate floodplain areas.

• Flood hazard information was converted to meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) DFIRM database specifications and Geographic Information System (GIS) format requirements.

• Flood hazard reduction measures shall not result in channelization of normal stream flows, interfere with natural hydraulic processes such as channel migration, or undermine existing structures or downstream banks.

• Flood hazard management planning should fully employ nonstructural approaches to minimizing flood hazard to the extent feasible.

More Definitions of Flood hazard

Flood hazard means those hazards related to inundation damages.

Flood hazard means those hazards to public safety or property from inundation damages.

Flood hazard. Area shall mean the floodplain on the total area inundated during the flood of record, or the area delineated by the Department of Environmental Protection, by Housing and Urban Development or by analysis of soil condition characteristics as floodplain, whichever is greater.

Flood hazard. The entire downtown Sacramento area is protected from flooding by a series of levees. According to Community Panel No. 060266-0025E, National Flood Insurance Rate Map, effective November 15, 1989, the subject property is in Flood Hazard Zone A99 and, therefore, does require flood hazard insurance.

Flood hazard means a hazard to land or improvements due to seasonal inundation or to overflow water having sufficient velocity to transport or deposit debris, scour the surface soil, dislodge or damage buildings, or erode the banks of water courses.

Flood hazard means a potential danger to life, property or natural resources due to storm water runoff or inundation, including deposition of silt and debris, erosion, or the presence of standing water. 16-2.016 Future Street

Flood hazard means a potential danger to life, property or natural resources due to storm water runoff or inundation, including deposition of slit and debris, erosion, or the presence of standing water.