Flood Insurance Study (FIS)
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Definition/Description
A FIS is a compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community. When a flood study is completed for the NFIP, the information and maps are assembled into an FIS. The FIS report contains detailed flood elevation data in flood profiles and data tables.
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Last Modified: Monday, 23-Apr-2007 09:19:17 EDT