FEMA releases prelim flood hazard maps for county

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Preliminary flood hazard maps for Huntington County have been released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

When final, the maps will show flood risk throughout the county and determine whether property owners, with a federal or federally insured loan, are required to carry flood insurance.

These are the first new flood hazard maps for the county in 28 years. They came as the result of FEMA, the Department of Natural Resources, and Huntington County completing an extensive multi-year study of the area's floodplains using state-of the-art technologies and risk-modeling techniques.