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About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...
Updated FEMA flood maps coming to York and Cumberland Counties Foley's home falls within a zone that FEMA said faces a small, but significant annual risk of a 100-year-flood.
Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that ...
(The Conversation) – 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 ...
A new tool that generates instant, accurate street-level resolution maps of floods worldwide since 1985 will help improve flood defenses and responses in the near future.
Santa Barbara County residents who own property in a former Recovery Map High Hazard Area (HHA) for flooding may no longer need permitting review from the ...
Texas Gov. Abbott called for a second special session on Friday, ordering the legislature to take up flooding relief and ...
The deadly floods that devastated Central Texas last month provide a stark example of what happens when flood zone ...
Just one month after deadly Texas floods claimed more than 130 lives, officials in Fulton County have created new, digital ...
Council has warned insurers not to “cash in’’ on flood premiums when new mapping for 17,000 low-lying Brisbane properties is ...
The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps are intended to be the nation’s primary tool for identifying flood risks. Originally developed in the 1970s to support the National ...
Parts of New York City’s subway system also flooded. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps are intended to be the nation’s primary tool for identifying flood risks.