Determine Your Flood Risk
Whether you’re a homeowner, homebuyer, tenant, insurance provider, or floodplain manager, it’s important to know and anticipate your current and future flood risk status.
To aid your research, Penn State University, FEMA, and the commonwealth created the Pennsylvania Flood Risk Tool to help you make informed decisions about flood risk. This step-by-step interactive process is designed to help you understand your flood risk and what your next steps should be based on your personalized results.
If you live in a community where flood maps are being updated, determining your flood risk is an important task. Updates to the maps, which are occurring throughout the state, can affect your flood insurance. Learn more below.
Mapping Rising Flood Risk
FEMA Region 3 has created a series of videos to walk you through the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instructions. Published by FEMA Region 3 to map the areas where flood risk is likely to rise first with climate change, these videos are meant to be used as a planning tool, not a regulatory requirement.
Mapping Rising Flood Risk YouTube Series November 2023