3-Hour Flood Insurance (NFIP) - Virginia

✅ Approved by Virginia Insurance Continuing Education Board | Provider #164929 | Course #229596 | Only $22.99 | Instant Emailed Certificate | 100% Online & Self-Paced

Earn 3 approved hours toward your Virginia insurance license continuing education with a course approved by the Virginia Insurance Continuing Education Board for only $22.99. The hours apply to your 16-hour 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 to Virginia.

✅ Course Details

• Course name: 3-Hour Flood Insurance (NFIP)
• Approved by: Virginia Insurance Continuing Education Board
• Provider number: 164929
• Course number: 229596
• Course length: 3 hours
• Course category: Property & Casualty
• Course format: 100% online, self-paced
• Price: $22.99
• Certificate: emailed immediately after completion
• Reporting: 1st Choice CE reports your completion to Virginia
• Page URL: https://1stchoice-ce.com/courses/checkout/virginia/3-hour-flood-insurance-nfip-virginia/
• 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 16 credit hours a single-category Virginia agent must complete each biennium, or the 24 hours required when you hold more than one 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 credit hours of insurance ethics, which may include Virginia insurance law and regulations. It does not satisfy the whole requirement on its own.

If you hold more than one license category your requirement is 24 hours rather than 16, with a minimum of eight hours in each category you hold. No more than 75 percent of your required credits may come from courses provided by insurance companies or agencies.

✅ Virginia Continuing Education Requirements

Under Virginia Code § 38.2-1866, an agent licensed in a single license category completes 16 hours of continuing education each biennium. An agent holding licenses in more than one category completes 24 hours, with a minimum of eight credit hours in each category held. Of the total required credits for each biennium, three credit hours must be in insurance ethics, which may include insurance law and regulations applicable in the Commonwealth.

• 16 hours per biennium for a single license category
• 24 hours per biennium if you hold more than one category, with at least 8 hours in each category held
• 3 of the total credits must be in insurance ethics, which may include Virginia insurance law and regulations
• No more than 75 percent of required credits may come from courses provided by insurance companies or agencies
• Single categories include life and annuities, health, property and casualty, personal lines, and title

Virginia exempts agents licensed during the final 13 months of a two-year period from the requirement for that biennium, under § 38.2-1871. Nonresident agents who meet their home state's requirements and consultants who satisfy the requirement for each license category held are also addressed there. Check your own license record rather than assuming an exemption applies.

How this course helps: This 3-hour course contributes 3 of the 16 credit hours a single-category Virginia agent must complete each biennium, or the 24 hours required when you hold more than one category. 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 credit hours of insurance ethics, which may include Virginia insurance law and regulations. It does not complete the renewal on its own.

✅ When Do Licensees Renew?

Virginia agents renew on a two-year biennium. Confirm your own biennium end date on your license record, because it is set from your licensing history rather than from a single statewide date.

✅ How to Renew Your Virginia License

1. Confirm your license categories and your biennium end date on your Virginia license record.
2. Work out your total: 16 hours for a single category, or 24 hours with at least 8 in each category if you hold more than one.
3. Complete the 3 required ethics credits from an approved ethics course, and the remaining hours in the categories you hold.
4. Complete every hour before the last day of your biennium, and allow provider reporting time before that date.
5. Check your Virginia CE transcript and confirm each course posted in the correct category.
6. Complete the Bureau of Insurance renewal for your license and pay the applicable fee.
7. Confirm your license shows active status with an updated expiration date, and keep your completion certificates.

Virginia expects the required credits to be completed within the biennium. Do not rely on a grace period; check your own license record for your biennium end date and finish ahead of it.

✅ 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 Virginia
• Affordable at $22.99
• 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 $22.99 and complete your 3 approved hours online, on your schedule. Questions before you buy? Call or text 1-800-698-2770.