FEMA Letter of Map Revision (LOMR)

Application Request Data and Other Information for a

Segment of Pinhook Creek and Huntsville Spring Branch 

Updated 02/04/2011

Property Owners/Renters, 

The City of Huntsville has prepared revised Floodplain and Floodway boundaries, based on updated hydrologic and hydraulic data, along Pinhook Creek and Huntsville Spring Branch from the Abingdon Ave. crossing of Pinhook Creek south to the downstream side of the Drake Ave. crossing of Huntsville Spring Branch.  A draft Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) application package has been prepared to submit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to request legal revision of their existing/Effective Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) to reflect the updated conditions. 

The information in the LOMR application package as been incorporated into the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Madison County wide Map Update.  Please visit the following link for further information and options for viewing the "Preliminary" mapping:  http://huntsvilleal.gov/flood.

Some areas may see an improvement to the conditions currently shown on the Effective FIRM, whereas others are adversely impacted, based on the updated and more accurate data used to depict the proposed conditions.  In areas where Base Flood Elevations (BFEs) have been lowered, the decrease may be enough to reflect a decrease in Flood Insurance rates subsequent to FEMA’s review and publication of a LOMR (although new Elevation Certificates will likely have to be done, at the owner’s/insured’s cost, to demonstrate the change to insurance companies/FEMA).