Certified Floodplain Manager Test
Questions and Answers 2026
What year did the US Congress pass the National Flood Insurance Act? -Correct
Answer ✔-1968
What did the National Flood Insurance Act create? -Correct Answer ✔-National
Flood Insurance Program
What is NFIP? -Correct Answer ✔-National Flood Insurance Program
What is the acronym for the National Flood Insurance Program? -Correct Answer
✔-NFIP
The National Flood Insurance Program was created to do these two things? -
Correct Answer ✔-1) reduce future flood losses theough local floodplain
management, and 2) provide protection for property owners against potential
losses through an insurance mechanism that allows a premium to be paid for
protection of those most in need.
As part of an agreement for making Flood Insurance available to the community,
the NFIP requires? -Correct Answer ✔-The community to adopt a floodplain
management ordinance that meet certain minimum requirements intended to
reduce future flood loss.
Flood event that has a 1% percent annual chance in any given year? -Correct
Answer ✔-100 year flood also known as the base flood
Lands that are at risk of being inundated by the base Flood are called? -Correct
Answer ✔-Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA)
What is the acronym for Special Flood Hazard Area? -Correct Answer ✔-SFHA
Questions and Answers 2026
What year did the US Congress pass the National Flood Insurance Act? -Correct
Answer ✔-1968
What did the National Flood Insurance Act create? -Correct Answer ✔-National
Flood Insurance Program
What is NFIP? -Correct Answer ✔-National Flood Insurance Program
What is the acronym for the National Flood Insurance Program? -Correct Answer
✔-NFIP
The National Flood Insurance Program was created to do these two things? -
Correct Answer ✔-1) reduce future flood losses theough local floodplain
management, and 2) provide protection for property owners against potential
losses through an insurance mechanism that allows a premium to be paid for
protection of those most in need.
As part of an agreement for making Flood Insurance available to the community,
the NFIP requires? -Correct Answer ✔-The community to adopt a floodplain
management ordinance that meet certain minimum requirements intended to
reduce future flood loss.
Flood event that has a 1% percent annual chance in any given year? -Correct
Answer ✔-100 year flood also known as the base flood
Lands that are at risk of being inundated by the base Flood are called? -Correct
Answer ✔-Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA)
What is the acronym for Special Flood Hazard Area? -Correct Answer ✔-SFHA
