Barton County has developed a Floodplain Management Resolution which will guide you through the hazards, restrictions and methods to manage and help prevent flood damage in Barton County.

As part of the administration of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)  published flood hazard maps, called Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs).  The purpose of a FIRM is to show the areas that are subject to flooding and the risk associated with these flood hazards. Floodsmart.gov: Your premier resource for flood insurance information will provide you with step by step instructions to residential flood insurance coverage.

 The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS) shown on this website were prepared by FEMA as part of the National Flood Insurance Program.  The DFIRM and FIS Report were issued by FEMA to Barton County on September 3, 2009.  These maps do not identify all areas subject to flooding, particularly from local drainage sources of small size.

 FEMA uses the most accurate flood hazard information available and applies rigorous standards in developing the FIRMs. However, because of limitations of scale or topographic definition of the source maps used to prepare a FIRM, small areas may be inadvertently shown within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) on a FIRM even though the property (legal defined parcel(s) of land, structure(s)) is on natural ground and is at or above the elevation of the 1-percent-annual-chance flood.  This elevation is most commonly referred to as the Base Flood Elevation (BFE).  Such cases are referred to as “inadvertent inclusions.”  Recognizing that these situations do occur, FEMA established administrative procedures to change the designation for these properties on the FIRM.  These processes are referred to as the Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA).