Floods & Flood Prevention

• Homeowners, Renters, Business Owners
  Find information and resources about protecting your family and property from flooding.
   
• Protect Your Property
  This resource guides homeowners on steps they can take to protect themselves and their property against floods. Opens as a PDF.
   
• Community Officials
  This section provides information for community officials about Risk MAP and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).
   
• Engineers, Surveyors, or Architects
  These resources are geared toward helping these professionals understand flood-related risks and technical tools available to them.
   
• Real Estate, Lending, or Insurance Professionals
  The resources on this page will help you be more prepared for client and community interactions.
   
• State, Local, Tribal, or Territorial Governments
  Use the resources below to become more familiar with the flood and flood-related risks that affect your region.

• Flood Data Viewers and Geospatial Data
  The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) is a geospatial database that contains current effective flood hazard data.
   
• Change Your Flood Zone Designation
  If you believe your property was incorrectly identified as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), you may submit an application to FEMA for a formal determination of the property's location and/or elevation relative to the SFHA. 
   
• Risk Mapping, Assessing, and Planning
  FEMA is responsible for mapping our country’s flood risk. The agency and its partners do this by making Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or flood maps. Risk Mapping, Assessment and Planning, Risk MAP, is the process used to make these maps. 
   

FloodSmart.gov
Official site of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)

FEMA.gov
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assists with the preparation and recovery of natural disaster.

• American Red Cross
  Learn how to keep your family safe during a flood, and how to clean up a flooded home.
   
• Ready.gov
  Information for preparing for a flood, staying safe during a flood, and what to do after a flood.
   
• National Weather Service
  This site is designed to teach you how to stay safe in a flood event. If you know what to do before, during, and after a flood you can increase your chances of survival and better protect your property. 
   

• Elevation Certificates
  To obtain flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, property owners will need a copy of an Elevation Certificate. 
   
• Emergency Sirens
  Knowing what the City's warning sirens are telling you is part of being prepared for emergencies. 
   
• Floodplain Map Atlas
  This City of Tulsa Regulatory Floodplain Map Atlas has been prepared by the City as a service for public information and education about flood hazard areas regulated by the City of Tulsa.
   
• City of Tulsa Flood Safety
  Including what to tell children and what to do if you are driving.
   
• Flood Prevention
  Steps you can take to prevent floods and mitigate damage.
   
• Flood Insurance Rate Map Zone Information
  The City of Tulsa will provide you with information regarding your property and the flood zones.
   
• Local Stream Gauges
  Links to several stream gages in waterways that have a direct impact on the Tulsa area.
   
• Stormwater Fee and Funding
  Information on the Stormwater Program.
   
• Tulsa Repetitive Loss Area
  Information on areas in Tulsa that have had repeated flood loss and what the city has done to mitigate future flood damage.
   
• Flood Preparedness
  Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management's recommendations

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Flood Status Information

• USACE's Daily Morning Reservoir Report 
  Provides current lake levels, limits, and occupied storage information.
   
• Keystone Dam Map

Highway & Road Closures

• Tulsa's Frequently Flooded Streets
  With associated creek that causes flooding.
   
• Oklahoma Road Conditions Map
  Click on the area you want information for, then scroll through the menu to find information for various conditions

USGS

• Flood Information
  Current flood conditions and notifications

Floodplain Maps

• City of Tulsa 
  Floodplain map
   
• INCOG
  Tulsa County Floodplain Map

Flood Prone Areas

• National Weather Service
  Map of flood prone areas
   
• Flood Hazard Profile

Local News

Find updates from local news outlets here:

• KJRH Channel 2
   
• KOTV Channel 6
   
• KJRH Channel 8
   
• KOKI Fox 23
   
• KRMG
   
• Tulsa World

City of Tulsa

• Flooding History
  Narrative history of Tulsa's floods.
   
• 1986 Historic Tulsa Flood Map 
   
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  1986 Water Analysis Appendix