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In the article the discussion has been undertaken about the information available at Flood Hazard Maps (Polish abbr. MZP) and Flood Risk Maps (Polish abbr. MRP) allowing to assess the susceptibility of the areas threatened by the flood. There were also indications on the necessity of extending the area of the analizes for the preparation of the effective plans about managing the flood risk, about the susceptibility to the flood hazard by the communities as the basic administrative units as well as the social-ecological systems. There were measures of the communities’ (the social-ecological systems) susceptibility to the flood hazard, whose obligation is the active management of the flood risk. The authors in their research of the resilience of the Polish social-ecological systems’ that are exposed to the flood used the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) terminology. The actually used simplifications in the process of preparation of the maps of the flood hazard and flood risk which constitute the basis for the specification of the flood threatened areas’ susceptibility were also subjected with the critical analysis. There were some innovative solutions introduced for the effective selection of the communities (social-ecological systems) threatened by the flood – that require special intervention due to limit the identified flood risk. The analyzes presented constitute the authors’ contribution in the research on ability to deal with by the local government units in Poland that are threatened by the floods and able to apply some adaptive means for the shaping (reduction) of the flood risk.