Completed Elevation Certificates
Check our list of completed Elevation Certificates to see if a certificate is on file for your property.
Elevation Certificate Information for Surveyors
ALERT: FEMA has published a new Elevation Certificate dated July 2015 and expiring on 11/30/2018. The District and FEMA are still accepting Elevation Certificates completed on the form that expired on July 31, 2015. The previous version of the form will be accepted until December 31, 2016. Any Elevation Certificate submitted to the District after that date must be on the latest form or it will be rejected.
Please note that the form formatting was revised slightly after the original release. This also occurred after the Elevation Certificate workshop hosted by the District in May.
Surveyors and engineers should familiarize themselves with the new form by carefully reviewing the FEMA instruction manual and the Districts Elevation Certificate Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
The District is currently requesting surveyors and engineers completing Elevation Certificates to establish a local datum of 100.0 feet at Highest Adjacent Natural Grade (HANG) for FEMA A Zones and local sheetflow floodplains. The District will indicate the BFE in box B.9 of the Elevation Certificate as 101.0 (for example) and indicate that the datum is HANG = 100.0 ft. Please see the December 20, 2011 memo to surveyors and engineers for more information.
The District has created a fillable PDF Elevation Certificate form. This form has certain common fields pre-filled in, and also contains drop down menus to aid in the efficient and uniform completion of Elevation Certificates.
Elevation Certificate Workshops
The District periodically coordinates with the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) to provide training for surveyors, engineers, insurance agents and floodplain management officials on how to understand and properly complete Elevation Certificates. These work shops are an important educational tool for users of Elevation Certificates.
An Elevation Certificate workshop was held on May 17, 2016. There are no workshops currently scheduled in the Tucson area, but ADWR does have a workshop scheduled in Casa Grande on August 22, 2017. For more information please see the
workshop announcement.