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Flood Insurance Information
(Content from City of Tampa Website)
Important changes are occurring in Hillsborough County. A multi-year project to re-examine flood zones and develop detailed digital flood hazard maps is nearing completion. Water flow and drainage patterns have changed significantly in the 25 years since the first Flood Hazard Maps were produced in Hillsborough County. These changes are related to erosion, land use, and other natural forces. However, the County's existing Flood Hazard Maps have not kept up with these changes and therefore don't reflect the County's current flood risks.
In response to this need, the County and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in cooperation with the cities of Tampa, Temple Terrace, and Plant City and various community partners, have revised the Flood Hazard Maps (also known as Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps). The new maps are preliminary maps and will not affect insurance costs or requirements until after a period of public review has occurred and the County has officially adopted them - anticipated to occur in summer 2007. These updated digital flood maps will allow property owners to make better financial decisions about protecting themselves and their property. The maps also will help community officials, engineers, builders and others to make important determinations about where and how new structures and developments should be built. As a result, Hillsborough County will be a safer place to live.
NEW UPDATE: At the request of the County, FEMA is updating and re-publishing the County's proposed flood maps that are provided on this site, with some refinements that the County requested. As a result, new proposed maps will be available on this website and for the public to review in late summer 2006. Therefore, the maps you currently see on this website might change, and we recommend you check them again once they are re-issued. The public meetings and appeals and protest period for residents will be scheduled after the maps are returned to the County. Please check periodically on this website for more information. You also can call the Hillsborough County Citizen Action Center at 272-5900.
Here you can search by map or address to see the proposed flood zone in which your home, or prospective home will lie.
Proposed Flood Map Viewers (City of Tampa website)
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