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Highland Village to enter FEMA Community Rating System; city launches GIS tool for flood-risk checks

2391226 · February 25, 2025
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Summary

City officials announced Feb. 25 that Highland Village is entering FEMA's Community Rating System, which the presentation said could lower residents' flood-insurance premiums by as much as $480 per year, and pointed residents to an online GIS portal to check address-level flood risk.

Highland Village staff told the City Council on Feb. 25 that the city is entering the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Community Rating System (CRS), a voluntary floodplain management program that can lower residents' flood-insurance premiums.

"This is a point system that will give…

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