Local Community Benefits

The NWFWMD Map Modernization Program will provide local communities with the tools and resources for managing, assessing, and planning for development and construction in flood prone areas to save lives and protect property. Mutually beneficial partnerships will be fostered that will achieve shared outcomes through the communication of flood risk and other hazard information and improve the systems that support them.

Because of the NWFWMD Map Modernization Program, local communities will have immediate and local access to updated flood data, which will enhance a community’s risk management applications and operations. The communities through partnership and outreach from the NWFWMD will know where to obtain flood and other hazard data and how to use and analyze it in order to make sound decisions to reduce their vulnerability to natural, and man made hazards.