# flood_storm_information # flood_storm_information Federal flood mapping for the property: zone classification, insurance requirement, community and panel identifiers, and evacuation designation. FEMA flood and storm information data containing flood zone classifications, insurance requirements, and evacuation zone designations for property locations. The question it answers ## What is this house, physically? The feature vector, taken from the source of record rather than from a listing agent. Assessor and parcel records are authoritative; listing fields are agent-entered, inconsistent between markets, and absent entirely for a property that was never listed. Other classes answering this question ## Why it matters Flood zone determines whether insurance is mandatory, which is a monthly cost and, in some markets, a financeability question rather than a preference. Evacuation designation is a separate and locally-defined overlay that does not follow the flood map. ## In practice The panel and version identifiers are carried alongside the zone because maps are revised, and a determination is only as good as the panel it was read from. A zone without the panel it came from cannot be re-checked. ## Properties | Property | Type | Definition | | --- | --- | --- | | `community_id` | `string | null` | The FEMA community identifier code for the jurisdiction where the property is located. | | `panel_number` | `string | null` | The FEMA flood insurance rate map (FIRM) panel number that contains the property location. | | `map_version` | `string | null` | The version identifier of the FEMA flood map panel. | | `effective_date` | `string | null` | The date when the current flood map version became effective. Format: MM/DD/YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD. | | `evacuation_zone` | `string | null` | The evacuation zone designation (e.g., A, B, C) assigned to the property location for emergency planning purposes. | | `flood_zone` | `string | null` | The FEMA flood zone designation indicating the level of flood risk (e.g., AE, X, VE). | | `flood_insurance_required` | `boolean` | Indicates whether flood insurance is required based on the flood zone designation and federal regulations. | | `source_http_request` | `object` | HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data. | | `request_identifier` | `string | null` | Identifier value that should be substituted into the source HTTP request to retrieve this specific data. | | `fema_search_url` | `string | null` | The FEMA Map Service Center URL used to search and verify flood information for the specific property address. | ## Provenance and coverage A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface. - Lee, Florida - Palm Beach, Florida - Miami-Dade, Florida - Orange, Florida - Santa Clara, California How a new jurisdiction is brought online