Ivy Tech Libraries: When Disaster Strikes! Locating Government Resources to Help During a Crisis: Floods

United States Resettlement Administration, Mydans, C., photographer. (1936) Ohio River in flood, Louisville, Kentucky. United States Louisville Kentucky, 1936. Mar. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017715514/.

The National Flood Insurance Program

FEMA's Mitigation Division explains the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the standards communities can maintain to qualify for the program.

National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
Floods are one of the most common natural disasters, especially as they are often caused by other disasters. To combat the amount of annual damage done by flooding, the U.S. Federal Government has created the National Flood Insurance Program.
FEMA's NFIP page
The National Flood Insurance Program.

General Flood Information

CDC Floods
Fact site on flood safety.
Water Resources of the U.S.
From the USGS.