Underwhelming List: Harris County FEMA 1316 Properties

Background: The National Flood Insurance Program contains a provision (section 1316) to disqualify certain properties from receiving flood insurance unless and until they are raised 1 foot above base flood elevation. This makes selling a 1316 home difficult, since it is almost impossible to get a conventional mortgage or other types of insurance.

Two of my previous posts (with one more incoming) documented shady re-development of 1316 properties in Montgomery County:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/qc6rdo/harvey_rehabber_way_beyond_buyer_beware/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/udzqz9/another_harvey_rehab_this_time_with_an/

Montgomery County is surprisingly transparent on this issue and makes their entire list readily available: https://www.mctx.org/departments/departments_q_-_z/recover/1316.php which inspired someone in a previous post to ask about the same information for Harris County.

Harris, and every other jurisdiction I googled, are radio silent on the issue, so I submitted an open records request to the Harris county Engineer's office and they replied.

It was a poor use of $6.50.

The results are underwhelming to say the least and I am deeply suspicious of the process used to determine 1316 status.

Here's the entire list from an Excel file named Ref__8418_Fema_List_Property_Addresses.xlsx:

• 131 W. Helms
• 615 Glenvale Dr.
• 726 Hill Road
• 1625 Pin Oak
• 1715 Charriton Dr.
• 1724 Erwin Rd.
• 2105 E. Weldon
• 2115 Shiveley Circle
• 2129 Shiveley Circle
• 2702 William Tell
• 5322 Olana
• 5401 Olana
• 5402 Olana
• 6514 E. Hillside
• 5642 Peek Rd.
• 5704 Lauder Rd.
• 7939 Jackstone
• 9615 Darla Ln
• 9615 Tamara Ln.
• 9623 Darla Ln.
• 9631 Dorita Ln.
• 9634 Tamara Ln.
• 9635 Angie Ln.
• 9636 Angie Ln.
• 10700 Crosby Lynchburg
• 13014 Maple
• 13022 Breezeway St.
• 13515 Homestead Rd.
• 13626 Terlin St.
• 13831 Terlin St.
• 13903 Darjean St.
• 13907 Darjean St.
• 13925 Schiller
• 15512 elson Dr.
• 17701 Meadow Brook
• 21015 Pine Oak Rd.
• 21906 Cyppresswood Grren Ct.
• 13602 Sundale

That's it. That's the whole list from the most densely populated county in the fifth largest metro area in the entire US.

I just sent in the same request to the City Of Houston's flood office and we'll see what they have to say….