It's National Flood Safety Awareness Week

We Want to Remind You of the Importance of Flood Insurance

With the potential for massive snow melt and rain storms, many communities nationwide face the threat of flooding this spring. It is critical that you remind home and business owners of their personal flood risk and that flood insurance can financially protect them from costly flood damage. Flood Safety Awareness Week, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and supported by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), was created to highlight the causes and consequences of flooding and educate communities on how to prepare for and protect their homes and businesses from the devastating effects of flooding.

Tips & Tools You Can Use

The National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) FloodSmart Campaign is working with FEMA and NOAA to encourage homeowners and business owners to take the steps necessary now to guard against the risks of flooding. Please join us in promoting Flood Safety Awareness Week to your customers, community members, colleagues and partners by using the tools and resources listed below.

•      Ready.gov/floodawareness: Visit Ready’s Flood Safety Awareness Week landing page to download Flood Safety Awareness Week fact sheets and other important preparedness tips you can share and post to your website.

•      FEMA.gov/widgets: A new Flood Safety Awareness Week embeddable widget is now available. We encourage you to include this on your website to promote the week. The FloodSmart seasonal widget is also available to post and share.

•     FloodSmart.gov: Visit FloodSmart.gov's homepage to find important spring preparedness and flood insurance information and outreach tools.

Blog posts and social media promotion. FEMA will be blogging and spreading the word through their social media tools (Facebook and Twitter). We encourage you to join them in using social media content