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Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...
And the new maps for Barre, Vt., predict that 20 percent more water would enter the city’s business district than the current maps predict, said Mike Miller, the city’s planning director.
There is growing homeowner outrage over new FEMA flood maps and changes to the national flood insurance program."Despite never having flooded before, building to specifications that FEMA gave us ...
FEMA manages flood maps for about 22,000 communities across the U.S. Almost two-thirds of those maps have an “effective date”—the date it was last officially updated—more than five years ...
The new FEMA flood maps do, indeed, reduce the base flood elevation - the required first-floor height above ground - for much of New Orleans to levels that are below heights required with the 1984 ...
A recent study found that FEMA failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages within their flood maps from 1999 to 2009. The FEMA flood maps are the primary source for how the government and ...
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) shared a link to a press release from online real estate giant Zillow, recommending the company’s new data offering on climate risk for home buyers.
Before that Atlas 14 data, the FEMA map showed 5,000,” Wright said. More of the data from Atlas 14 is expected to be released in 2025. You can see current FEMA flood zones here .
Many areas of western North Carolina affected by flooding had FEMA flood maps that were 12 to 15 years old, according to Anna Weber, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense ...
If you're looking at the new FEMA flood map for Palm Beach County — good luck. Navigating the map is not proving to be easy for many.
New data shows that nearly 70% more homes should be listed on FEMA flood maps as climate change brings more severe weather events. CNN’s Rene Marsh reports.
When FEMA last revised its flood maps in 2017, it added 500 Quincy properties to the flood zone. Shea said many of these additions were inaccurate. "We knew the maps were incorrect," Shea said.