Flood Regulations

Special Purpose Flood Damage Reduction Regulations for Clermont County

The County adopts and maintains Flood Plain Regulations in order to comply with the National Flood Plain Insurance Program per FEMA requirements. The current Regulations were updated and adopted in 2012. Approval is required for all work or development to property in special flood hazard areas within the jurisdiction of Clermont County as identified in Section 1.6 of the regulations.

The Application for Flood Plain Development and the Special Purpose Flood Damage Reduction Regulations are available for download in Adobe Acrobat Reader format. You may obtain Adobe Acrobat Reader for free by clicking here.

• Special Flood Hazard Area Development Permit Application – (170 KB PDF)
• Special Purpose Flood Damage Reduction Regulations – (2 MB PDF)

Below is a link to the flood maps for Clermont County. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) updated these maps on March 16, 2006 and they have been scanned for your convenience.  The FEMA maps provide information on the location of the special flood hazard areas within Clermont County as defined by FEMA.

• Flood Maps effective March 16, 2006

In Addition; FEMA maintains a website to allow you access to the flood maps and a product called a ‘FIRMette’, which is a FEMA document of your site.  To access this information, go to the FEMA website at:

https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home

Historical Regulations – Copies of previous regulations are provided for reference

• 2006 Flood Damage Prevention Regulations
• 1994 Flood Damage Prevention Regulations

Other useful Links

• FEMA Floodplain Map Service Center
• USGS – U.S. Geological Survey
• ASACE -Army Corp of Engineers
• OEPA – Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
• NFIP – National Flood Insurance Program
• ODNR – Division of Water
• FEMA – Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Elevation Certificate
• Elevation Certificate instructions
• Form MT-EZ: This form should be used by an individual property owner to request that FEMA remove a single structure or a legally recorded parcel of land or portion thereof from a designated Special Flood Hazard Area, an area that will be inundated by the flood having a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year (base flood), via Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA)

The Flood Plain Development Administrative Checklist (typically for office use) is also available for download in Adobe Acrobat Reader format.

• Administrative Checklist – (17 KB PDF)