Vermilion Parish Flood Zone Map

Any place with a 1% chance or higher chance of experiencing a flood each year is considered to have a high risk. When the river below pinhook bridge is unable to carry high flows, the direction is reversed upstream toward the low marsh areas east of lafayette parish. The state, in collaboration with vermilion parish officials, designated these priority zones using flood maps and modeling data.

Please see the following contact information: See your home on the current fema flood map. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from st.

During high flood stages, an unusual phenomenon occurs on the vermilion river.

Landry parish, and flows generally southward through lafayette and vermilion parishes, past the cities of lafayette and abbeville. This reversal is limited to the reach between pinhook bridge and long bridge where the left descending bank borders a low swamp area. Age and format of their effective flood insurance rate maps (firms). By camille bryant on august 17, 2016.