Help Your Clients Be Prepared for Flooding

Flood insurance is the best way for your clients to financially protect their homes, but it is not the only way. Low- to no-cost mitigation practices can help your clients be prepared for the physical damage of flooding. Even if flood insurance is not financially feasible for any of your clients, there are still measures they can take to stay prepared and protected. FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is here to help and provide resources.  

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As a trusted insurance agent in your community, your clients look to you for what they need to be prepared. Make sure they know about their low-cost flood insurance options and direct them to floodsmart.gov/SET to learn more about how to get S.E.T. and prepare for a flood:  

  • Store Important Documents like passports and birth certificates in a flood-safe place.
  • Elevate and Anchor Utilities above potential floodwaters to ensure as little damage to homes as possible.
  • Toss out Debris from gutters and drains because flooding occurs when water cannot drain properly.

Direct your clients to floodsmart.gov/SET to learn more. After you’ve told your clients to get S.E.T., you can share these helpful resources about flood insurance: 

Keep the conversation going by using the NFIP resource library to find all available resources for agents, like easy social post copy and images to engage with your community and the NFIP Publications Order Form to request free print copies of resources.

Take action: Spread the word

Take action by posting on social media and sending emails to customers and clients. Use the links to post or copy campaign text and download the material to share.

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Flood Protection

When the storms roll in, there are flood loss prevention methods you can use to protect your home. Get S.E.T! 

Store important documents; 
Elevate utilities; and 
Toss debris out of your gutters. Learn more at floodsmart.gov/SET 

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Flood Protection

#FloodInsurance can help shield you from financial burden after a #flood and getting S.E.T will prepare your home against flooding. 

Store important documents; 
Elevate your utilities; and 
Toss out debris from gutters. Learn more about these three easy steps at floodsmart.gov/SET 

it only takes an inch to flood your living room. water levels rising in living room.

Flood Protection

It doesn’t take much to experience a #flood disaster. Over 40% of NFIP flood insurance claims come from outside high-risk areas. When just one inch of water can cause roughly $25,000 in damage to your home, it’s important you protect what matters most by learning about flood loss prevention at floodsmart.gov/SET. 

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Email Your Clients

Already emailing your clients about updates or changes to their policies? Download the branded email header to use when reaching out to them about flood insurance. Check out our resource library for sample email templates you can use. 

Understand the Risks

Hurricane season is here and now is a good time to learn about ways to protect yourself and your belongings. In this video, Aaron Kubey FEMA spokesperson, uses ASL to communicate with the Deaf Community about ways to get SET.

Talking Points

  1. Extreme weather is a force multiplier–causing an increase in the number of storms, floods, fires and extreme temperatures that threaten the well-being of people across our nation. Hurricane Ida is still fresh in our minds from 2022, when it devastated urban and suburban areas.  

  2. Just 1 inch of water can cause roughly $25,000 of damage to your home.

  3. 98% of all counties have experienced a flood event, but only 4% of homeowners have flood insurance.

  4. 90% of all weather-related disasters in the United States involve some type of flooding.

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