Certified Floodplain Manager Test Questions and Answers
with Complete Solutions
What year did the US Congress pass the National Flood Insurance Act? -
Answer 1968
What did the National Flood Insurance Act create? - Answer National Flood
Insurance Program
What is NFIP? - Answer National Flood Insurance Program
What is the acronym for the National Flood Insurance Program? - Answer
NFIP
The National Flood Insurance Program was created to do these two things? -
Answer 1) reduce future flood losses theough local floodplain management,
and 2) provide protection for property owners against potential losses through an
insurance mechanism that allows a premium to be paid for protection of those
most in need.
As part of an agreement for making Flood Insurance available to the community,
the NFIP requires? - Answer The community to adopt a floodplain
management ordinance that meet certain minimum requirements intended to
reduce future flood loss.
Flood event that has a 1% percent annual chance in any given year? - Answer
100 year flood also known as the base flood
Lands that are at risk of being inundated by the base Flood are called? -
Answer Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA)
What is the acronym for Special Flood Hazard Area? - Answer SFHA
What is the acronym SFHA? - Answer Special Flood Hazard Area
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