Flood After Fire Insurance Agent Briefing

This webinar is intended to help Property and Causality Insurance Agents communicate Flood After Wildfire Risks to your clients and protect their financial investment in their home or business. Property owners may be unaware of the change of their flood risk due to a wildfire.

During this webinar we will discuss increased risk of flooding due to the environmental changes following a wildfire, we will show you how to access marketing tools and tips through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), discuss NFIP flood policies, and address common misconceptions. We will provide you with resources you can use to assist your agency to become better informed about Flood Insurance and the benefits to both your agency and your clients.

Remember as an Insurance Agent you play an important role in protecting your client’s assets, you are their trusted advisor.

Do you want to be the one to tell a client they have no coverage for flood damage? Be the informed agent, think long term, and you will have a client for life. BE THEIR HERO.

Agenda:

• Trusted Advisor
• Change in risk due to wildfire
• Potential Growth
• Marketing your Client Base
• Misconceptions
• Flood Speak
• Policy
• Rate Maps and Elevation Certificates
• Resources

Presenters:

FEMA Region 8 - Flood After Fire Outreach Team:

Tracie Harrison, BS, CFM:

Tracie grew up in the suburbs of Salt Lake City, Utah spending summer vacations camping or enjoying the areas five National Parks, where her love of nature grew. After spending seventeen years in the insurance industry she decided to go back to school and received her bachelor’s degree in Geography and Environmental Sustainability from the University of Utah. She competed a one-year internship with the Utah Division of Emergency Management focusing in their Risk Map program. She joined FEMA in the fall of 2018 as a Hazard Mitigation Specialist deployed to Florida for Hurricane Irma support. One year later she was offered a position with FEMA Region VIII, here in Denver Colorado, in the Mitigation Division-Floodplain Management and Insurance Branch. Utilizing her numerous years of experience as an insurance agent and her combined knowledge of flood mitigation, she assists communities and states in Flood After Fire risk education and outreach to communities impacted by Wildfire events.

Peter Reinhardt, CFM:

Peter is originally from Upstate New York, has a degree in Geology from Denison University, and has been working in floodplain management for over fifteen years. Peter began his career back east at an engineering firm working under FEMA’s NFIP contract supporting both MT-1 and MT-2 processing. After several years in the consulting field, he relocated to Colorado and began working in floodplain management at the local government level. Peter recently started working for FEMA in the Floodplain Management and Insurance Branch focusing on the Flood After Fire program. With the rise in the number and magnitude of wildfires in Colorado this past year Peter is working to increase awareness of the higher risk of flooding after fires.

The event site and electronic versions of meeting or training materials will be accessible to people with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation (e.g., sign language interpreters, Braille, CART, etc.), please make your request by Friday May 10th, 20201. Send an email to tracie.harrison@fema.dhs.gov or call . Requests after May 11th, 2021 will be considered but might not be possible to fulfill.