Quickly Find Your Flood Zone Info. MapWise provides an easy to use web-based Flood Zone Tool to quickly find flood zone information by street address anywhere within Florida. If you are not in a flood zone, you can also view the flood zone maps to determine if you are near one.

ZONE CLASSIFICATIONS PLEASE PRINT A COPY FOR FUTURE REFERENCE. Zone C, Zone X- Areas determined to be outside 500-year floodplain determined to be outside the 1% and 0.2% annual chance floodplains. Zone B, Zone X500 - Areas of 500-year flood; areas of 100-year flood with average depths of less than 1

The areas of minimal flood hazard, which are the areas outside the SFHA and higher than the elevation of the 0.2-percent-annual-chance flood, are labeled Zone C or Zone X (unshaded). To see flood maps for a specific address, visit FEMA's Flood Map Service Center.

Do you live in a flood zone? Check out the FEMA flood zones for Orange, Seminole, Lake and Osceola counties.

Finding Your Zone Information . There are several ways to find out which zone applies to you. You can determine your risk online by visiting floodsmart.gov. You can also go to your town hall or city hall, where employees responsible for issuing building permits in your area have access to flood zone maps.

ZONE: DESCRIPTION: B, X (shaded) Moderate risk areas within the 0.2-percent-annual-chance floodplain, areas of 1-percent-annual-chance flooding where average depths are less than 1 foot, areas of 1-percent-annual-chance flooding where the contributing drainage area is less than 1 square mile, and areas protected from the 1-percent-annual-chance flood by a levee.

Technically, every house in Florida is in a flood zone. It’s just a matter of whether it is in a low, moderate or high-risk flood zone.Here is a break-down of the various Florida flood zones.

Definitions of FEMA Flood Zone Designations Flood zones are geographic areas that the FEMA has defined according to varying levels of flood risk. These zones are depicted on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or Flood Hazard Boundary Map. Each zone reflects the severity or type of flooding in the area.

Visual Flood Zone Report included . Now you can order your own FEMA Flood Zone Determination. A flood map specialist and/or a certified floodplain manager will manually research each property ensuring unmatched accuracy.

Every part of the country, not just Florida, will be under new FEMA flood maps in 2016. If you live near any body of water, the chances are your flood insurance costs will rise. In the Sarasota area, the most common flood zone designations are explained in the graphic.