Flood Plain Management 

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) provides federally backed flood insurance that encourages communities to enact and enforce floodplain regulations.

To be covered by a flood insurance policy, a property must be in a community that participates in the NFIP. To qualify for the program, a community adopts and enforces a floodplain management ordinance to regulate development in flood hazard areas. The basic objective is to ensure that development will not aggravate existing flooding conditions and that new buildings will be protected from flood damage.

The NFIP has been successful in requiring new buildings to be protected from damage by a 100-year flood. However, flood damage still results from floods greater than the 100-year flood and from flooding in unmapped areas.

On November 18, 1981, the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners joined the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). NFIP is a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Program enabling property owners to purchase flood insurance and is designed to reduce the escalating costs of property damage caused by floods.

For more information on the NFIP and the requirements select any of the topics below or contact the Development Review Division at the following location and phone:

RULES AND REGULATIONS

On November 18, 1981, the Pasco County Board of County Commissioners joined the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by adopting its initial Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance. By adopting this ordinance and agreeing to enforce these regulations, property owners within unincorporated Pasco County are able to purchase flood insurance.

To view the requirements for construction within a flood hazard area within unincorporated Pasco County, select Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance

Other permitting and construction references are available for viewing by selecting one of the topics below:

Coastal Construction

Manufactured Home Installation in Flood Hazard Areas

Floodproofing Non-Residential Structures

Answers to Questions about Substantially Damaged Buildings