3-Hour Flood Insurance (NFIP) - Vermont

✅ Approved by Vermont Department of Financial Regulation | Provider #500032164 | Course #6000207759 | Only $19.99 | Instant Emailed Certificate | 100% Online & Self-Paced

Earn 3 approved hours toward your Vermont insurance license continuing education with a course approved by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation for only $19.99. The hours apply to your 24-hour review period requirement and the course is approved in the Property & Casualty category, so you can enroll online and start on your own schedule.

The course is 100% online and self-paced. Log in and out as often as you need without losing progress. Your certificate is emailed the moment you finish, and 1st Choice CE reports your completion within 15 days, as Vermont requires providers to do.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 3-Hour Flood Insurance (NFIP)
• Approved by: Vermont Department of Financial Regulation
• Provider number: 500032164
• Course number: 6000207759
• Course length: 3 hours
• Course category: Property & Casualty
• Course format: 100% online, self-paced
• Price: $19.99
• Certificate: emailed immediately after completion
• Reporting: 1st Choice CE reports your completion within 15 days, as Vermont requires providers to do
• Page URL: https://1stchoice-ce.com/courses/checkout/vermont/3-hour-flood-insurance-nfip-vermont/
• Support: call or text 1-800-698-2770

✅ Who Should Take This Course?

• Property and casualty agents and personal lines producers
• Agents writing homeowners business in or near a mapped flood zone
• Producers who must satisfy a mandated flood training requirement
• Agents who advise clients on lender-required flood coverage
• Commercial lines producers writing property in flood-exposed areas
• Agents fielding questions about why a homeowners policy did not pay for flood

✅ Does This Course Satisfy the State Requirement?

This course provides 3 approved hours toward the 24 credit hours a Vermont producer must complete in each 24-month review period, the current one ending March 31, 2027. This is a 3-hour National Flood Insurance Program course. Where you are required to complete NFIP training in order to write flood business, this is the course that covers it. It is general credit toward your state total, so it does not satisfy the separate 3 hours related to ethics. It does not satisfy the whole requirement on its own.

Vermont sets no cap on self-study or online hours, so all of these hours count in full. Vermont does not allow carryover, so hours above 24 are simply lost. No more than 6 of the 24 may relate to insurance agency management, which does not affect this course.

✅ Vermont Continuing Education Requirements

Vermont runs continuing education on a fixed statewide schedule rather than a personal one. Under Regulation I-2000-02, the review period is a 24-month period beginning April 1 of an odd-numbered year and ending March 31 two years later, and 8 V.S.A. § 4800a requires 24 hours of Commissioner-approved continuing education during that period as a condition of renewal. Three of the 24 hours must relate to ethics. The 24-hour total is the same whether you hold Life & Health, Property & Casualty, or both - Vermont does not split the requirement by line of authority. The current review period runs April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2027.

• 24 credit hours in each 24-month review period
• 3 of the 24 must be related to ethics
• One-time 3-hour National Flood Insurance Program course for producers licensed to sell property and casualty insurance
• No more than 6 of the 24 hours may relate to insurance agency management
• No cap on self-study or online hours - all 24 may be completed online
• Excess hours do NOT carry over from one review period to the next

A producer licensed to sell property and casualty insurance must complete one 3-hour course on the National Flood Insurance Program. It is a one-time requirement, not one per period, and it counts inside the 24. No more than 6 of the 24 hours may relate to insurance agency management. Vermont sets no cap on self-study or online hours, so all 24 may be completed online provided the courses are approved and you pass the provider-administered examination. Excess hours do not carry over to the next review period, and the same course cannot be credited twice in one period. The requirement does not apply to a producer until after the first renewal or first eligibility for renewal, so a newly licensed producer owes nothing in that first partial term. Nonresident producers who satisfy a home state that has its own requirement are excused. The Commissioner may extend the deadline by up to six months for good cause.

How this course helps: This 3-hour course contributes 3 of the 24 credit hours a Vermont producer must complete in each 24-month review period, the current one ending March 31, 2027. It is approved in the Property & Casualty category. This is a 3-hour National Flood Insurance Program course. Where you are required to complete NFIP training in order to write flood business, this is the course that covers it. It is general credit toward your state total, so it does not satisfy the separate 3 hours related to ethics. It does not complete the renewal on its own.

✅ When Do Licensees Renew?

Vermont producer licences do not run on your birthday. They expire at 12:01 a.m. on April 1 of every odd-numbered year, which means the licence is good through March 31. Licence fees are not prorated and the term is fixed regardless of when you first applied, so a producer licensed mid-period still expires on the next March 31 of an odd year. Continuing education is due on that same date. The next deadline for resident producers is March 31, 2027. Note that adjusters, consultants and surplus lines brokers expire on March 31 of EVEN years - those dates do not apply to a producer licence.

✅ How to Renew Your Vermont License

1. Confirm your licence type. Producer, limited lines producer, title agent, managing general agent and bail bond agent licences expire March 31 of odd-numbered years.
2. Confirm which mandated subjects apply. Everyone needs 3 ethics hours. Property and casualty producers also need the one-time 3-hour NFIP flood course if they have not already taken it.
3. Complete all 24 hours before March 31 of the odd year. Remember that excess hours do not carry forward, so there is no benefit to overshooting.
4. Allow reporting time. Providers report completions to the Department's CE vendor within 15 days, and you receive your completion certificate within 20 days.
5. Check your CE transcript in State Based Systems, which shows both the current and the prior review period, and confirm the ethics hours posted in the ethics category.
6. Renew online at NIPR.com. Vermont sends renewal notices at the beginning of the odd year, and a paper application is accepted only where the electronic option is unavailable.
7. Pay the state fee, then verify your licence in State Based Systems - Vermont does not mail you a renewed licence, so you print your own verification.

Vermont states no grace period. Your renewal application must be received before the March 31 deadline to prevent a lapse. A producer who fails to meet the continuing education requirement without an approved extension will not have the licence renewed, and a producer who received an extension and still fails to complete has the licence suspended. The only relief is a Commissioner-granted extension of up to six months for good cause, requested by March 31. If a licence has already lapsed, contact DFR Producer Licensing - Vermont does not publish a fixed reinstatement window or fee.

✅ What You Will Learn

• Explain what the NFIP covers and what it excludes, and why a homeowners policy does not cover flood
• Read a Flood Insurance Rate Map and interpret a flood zone determination
• Apply the building and contents coverage limits and the separate deductibles correctly
• Explain the 30-day waiting period and the exceptions to it before a client is caught by it
• Describe how Risk Rating 2.0 changed premium calculation and what an elevation certificate is still used for
• Compare an NFIP policy with private flood coverage and identify when each fits

✅ Course Content Overview

Hour 1: Why flood is excluded from standard property policies and how the National Flood Insurance Program came to fill the gap. The hour covers the definition of flood, what the NFIP will and will not pay for, the Standard Flood Insurance Policy forms for dwellings, general property and residential condominium associations, and who is eligible to buy coverage through a participating community.

Hour 2: Zones, maps and rating: reading a Flood Insurance Rate Map, Special Flood Hazard Areas and the zone designations, flood zone determinations and what to do when a client disputes one, elevation certificates and what they are still used for, and how Risk Rating 2.0 changed the way premium is calculated. The hour also covers the mandatory purchase requirement for federally backed loans.

Hour 3: Coverage in practice and at claim time: building and contents limits, the separate deductibles, what basements and below-grade areas do and do not get, actual cash value versus replacement cost, the 30-day waiting period and its exceptions, Increased Cost of Compliance, and how a flood claim is adjusted and proven. The hour closes on the private flood market and how to compare it with an NFIP policy.

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✅ Why Choose 1st Choice CE?

• Approved provider and approved course in Vermont
• Affordable at $19.99
• 100%% online and self-paced
• Log in and out anytime without losing progress
• Instant emailed certificate
• We report your completion for you
• Money-back guarantee
• Over 10 years of continuing education experience
• Support by phone or text at 1-800-698-2770

✅ Enroll Now

Enroll in 3-Hour Flood Insurance (NFIP) for $19.99 and complete your 3 approved hours online, on your schedule. Questions before you buy? Call or text 1-800-698-2770.