The Trump administration is planning to develop a new database aimed at providing more precise locations of flash flooding ...

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

Even a small amount of water inside a home can cause costly damage. Here’s how to assess your flood risk and what to do if ...

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 ...

A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit outside FEMA’s hazard zones, exposing insurance gaps and urging better risk ...

PREPARATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE FLOOD in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

But FEMA's insurance maps are based on past patterns of flooding. Future sea level rise — which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones — is not factored in. So some communities are ...

FEMA is anticipated to open a 90-day public appeal and comment period in the winter where property owners can formally ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, which insures $1.25 trillion in assets, relies on these maps to assess risk, set premiums and determine who is required to purchase flood insurance.

The FEMA flood risk maps do not consider clogged culverts or bridges as the recovery maps did. They also do not consider a burned watershed, which would create higher peak flows, Griffin said.