Know Your Flood Risk
Do you know if your property is located in an area subject to flooding. Call 805-654-2423 to find out the flood hazard for your property.
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Insure Your Property
Ask your insurance agent if you are covered for flood damage. Renters should buy flood insurance for their contents. Take advantage of a low-cost Preferred Risk Policy.
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Protect People
Turn around, don’t drown. Don’t camp in a dry wash. Designate a place where your family can rendezvous after an evacuation order is issued.
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Protect Your Property
Replace your flooded furnace with one elevated above the flood level. Store your valuables and insurance papers upstairs in a waterproof container. We can help you get a grant to elevate your home. Call us at 805-654-2423.Read More
Build Responsibly
Get a permit from Ventura County Public Works Agency before you build. Don’t build or grade within 10 feet from the property line so you don’t alter the drainage between homes. Use only licensed contractors who know the rules.
Floodplain Development Permit Requirements
Floodplain Building Requirement
Protect Floodplains
Protect our turtle nesting areas: stay off the beach after sunset.
Report broken silt fences: they help keep our streams clean. Don’t trash the river—that’s where we get our drinking water. Protecting Natural Floodplain Resources
Flood Warnings
View Ventura County's Flood Warning & Response Program and latest Flood Warning Data
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Know Your Flood Risk
Insure Your Property
Protect People
Protect Your Property
Build Responsibly
Protect Floodplains
Flood Warnings
Elevation Certificates
CA Flood Week
Welcome!
The County of Ventura's Flood Information website is being brought to you through the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System (CRS).
On this site you will be able to review the latest Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) flood insurance rate maps. Here you may also see if your property is affected, learn about flood safe requirements for building in a floodplain, become better informed on how to hire a contractor, obtain information on flood insurance, and much more!
Floodplain Information
Flood Warning Systems
ALERT System
VC Alert employs a combination of database and mapping technologies to allow emergency responders to pinpoint a specific geographic area and deliver the appropriate message to residents in the affected area.
Weather Information
Checking forecasts from the National Weather Service or a a NOAA weather radio can be an important part of flood preparedness. Keep safe by being prepared!
