Flooding isn’t just a risk for those living near hurricane-prone coastlines or riverbanks—floodwaters can rise almost anywhere, including areas where homeowners least expect it. Even a single ...

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...

Brigantine municipal officials recently received guidelines regarding the new FEMA Advisory Base Flood Elevation maps. The following information is based on these guidelines. Prior to Sandy, FEMA was ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

According to the Congressional Budget Office, over 9% of properties in the United States are at risk of flooding. When disaster strikes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is in charge ...

PETERSBURG – Township committee will hold a public hearing and final vote tonight on a zoning ordinance that adopts advisory base flood elevation maps proposed by FEMA, and increases building height ...

When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is My Home in a Flood Zone? How To Check Flood Maps and Figure Out If You Need Flood Insurance Flooding isn’t just a coastal or ...

Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...