NEWPORT, Tenn. (WVLT) - Since 1988, Cocke County has been a part of the National Flood Insurance Program, which impacts federal disaster relief funds and flood insurance rates.
Flood ordinance updates keep the city in compliance with insurance guidelines and staff revisions to the housing plan keep zoning as is in legacy neighborhoods.
The fate of the National Flood Insurance Program, managed by FEMA and relied on by more than 4.7 million homeowners, will also be up in the air as the process gets underway. "I think, frankly, FEMA is ...