Levees / Iowa / 5105520001

Cedar Falls, IA

Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa. On the Cedar River. USACE records 742 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
742
USACE figure
Structures
90
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.7
miles, plus 0.28 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.15
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5105520001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
10/29/2014
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Cedar Falls, IA
Waterway
Cedar River
Segments
1
USACE district
Rock Island
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$113.8 million
Flood of record
06/11/2008

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

02

Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5105520001. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.