FEMA Map Center Through it’s online map center, FEMA offers flood hazard mapping information, products, and services.  This site (http://www.msc.fema.gov) has downloadable how-to-guides and viewable flood maps.

Where to view paper copies of local flood maps: All RI communities have local flood rate maps, also called flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs).  Please contact your local National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Coordinator to arrange a time to review the local maps. 
Click here for a list of local NFIP Coordinators.


Updating Rhode Island’s Flood Maps The average age of the approximately 218 FIRM panels in Rhode Island is 16 years.  The Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA), in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is in the process of updating its Flood Insurance Rate Maps and will be making them available in a digital GIS format. 

For more information, check out FEMA’s Map Modernization website at: (http://www.fema.gov/plan/prevent/fhm/index.shtm/mm_main.shtm)