FERPA - Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FIA - Federal Insurance Administration
Field Operations Guide - Durable pocket or desk guides that contain essential information required to perform specific assignments or functions. Critical personnel, such as the mayor, emergency manager, fire and police chief, should have multiple copies for their office, home and vehicle.
Finance/Administration Section - The Incident Command System section responsible for all administrative and financial considerations surrounding an incident.
Finance/Administration Section Chief - A member of the general staff who monitors costs related to the incident and provides accounting, procurement, time recording and cost analyses.
Fire Management Assistance Declaration - Available to states, local and tribal governments for the mitigation, management, and control of fires on publicly or privately owned forests or grasslands which have the potential to cause as much destruction as would a major disaster. The Fire Management Assistance declaration process is initiated when a state submits a request for assistance to the FEMA regional director at the time a "threat of major disaster" exists. The entire process is accomplished on an expedited basis and a FEMA decision is rendered in a matter of hours.
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) - FEMA uses Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), in addition to risk assessments, to maintain and update data for NFIP regulations and flood insurance requirements.
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) - FEMA uses FIRMs, in addition to risk assessments, as the basis for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) regulations and flood insurance requirements. FIRMs are used to establish flood zones and the base flood elevation (BFE) -- the estimation of where flood levels should be during a “base flood” that has an annual 1 percent chance of occurring -- for each flood zone. FIRMs include statistical information such as data for river flow, storm tides, hydrologic/hydraulic analyses and rainfall and topographic surveys.
Flood Zones - Flood insurance rate maps (FIRMS) break coastal, shoreline and riverine areas into zones of special flood hazard. Zones can be highly specific, but there are three basic levels: Areas that are at risk of waves higher than three feet (Zone V), areas subject to 100-year-floods (Zone A) and areas subject to 500-year floods (Zone X).
Floodplain - An area susceptible to flooding.