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:

Development Review Division
7530 Little Road, Suite 230
New Port Richey, Florida 34654
(727) 847-8142
(800)368-2411 ext. 8142