If you’re wondering what an elevation certificate is, it’s a document that holds crucial information about your property’s elevation in relation to flood zones and helps you understand your ...

An elevation certificate might be useful in a few ways. If you do not believe your home needs flood insurance, an elevation certificate could help back up your claim.

The zoomable maps allow users to apply several scenarios. They can see what a one-in-20-year and a one-in-100-year flood would look like today.

The maps, which were released in December by FEMA, added about 33,000 homes to a flood zone and increased base flood elevations between 1 foot and 6 feet for many neighborhoods, with the average ...

The City of Fredericton has launched an online neighbourhood flood risk map. The city hopes the map will help property owners most at risk try to mitigate it.