Holistic community outreach is an important part of raising awareness about flood hazards. This activity awards points to communities that invest in local information programs.

This activity addresses work done by your community's emergency management department. Elements award credits for work done to ensure rapid flood-threat analysis and response.

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) standards provide a useful baseline for communities to develop regulation. For this activity, credits are awarded to you if your community develops higher regulatory standards to address your specific development and floodplain management goals.

When buildings cannot be acquired or moved out of high-hazard areas, an alternative can be to protect them from flood damage with flood control structures or by retrofitting them.

If there are levees in your community, this activity awards points for maintaining and preparing response protocol around them.