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 you’re in the danger zone.

A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit ...

Flaws in FEMA flood maps leave millions unprepared. Some are trying to fix that. Skip to content. ... Pearl Dennis bought her house, which isn’t in a FEMA hazard area, in 2015.

Back in 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) included Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp, in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” for its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County, ...

FEMA officials have testified to Congress that over 40 percent of NFIP claims made in 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones, or in areas the agency had yet to map.

Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...

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

More than 1,900 Town properties are located in FEMA special flood hazard area zones, with 37 having been added to new maps introduced in 2019.

“FEMA felt that these maps had not been updated in close to 40 years in some instances,” he says. Todd says for the people now out of the zone, it means flood insurance may not be not required.

When the non-profit climate research firm First Street Foundation compared its flood model to FEMA’s maps the report found that, as of 2020, 5.9 million properties and property owners are ...

Wall estimates 1,400 properties in West Palm Beach were added to FEMA’s special flood hazard area zones that would require mortgage holders to have flood insurance.