Virginia officials are updating the commonwealth's master flood plan to help localities tackle future flooding risks.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the ...

Some people in Clay County who may not have had to pay for flood insurance in the past might be required to now due to FEMA ...

Between 8 and 10 p.m. on July 6, tropical storm flood waters pushed through Carrboro’s Weatherhill Pointe neighborhood near Morgan Creek. In less than two hours, it turned streets into rivers, ...

Hurricane Harvey made our vulnerability visible: neighbors rescuing neighbors, photo albums floating in living rooms, bayous surging over their banks. Then came the canyons of sopping drywall, sofas, ...

One of Alaska's most populated cities is bracing for potentially catastrophic flooding as a basin dammed within the Mendenhall Glacier has started to release rainwater and snowmelt downstream, ...

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps, often referred to simply as flood maps, outline flood risk. The maps are critical to determining the need for flood ...

About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own flood mapping and appeal. When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas ...

The deadly floods that devastated Central Texas last month provide a stark example of what happens when flood zone development regulations are absent or unenforced. Early last spring, while still ...

When flash floods tore through Kerr County on July 4, Phillip Roberson’s home on the banks of the Guadalupe River filled with nine feet of water. Part of the 3.5-acre property had once been designated ...

Savannah has experienced above average rainfall this hurricane season, raising concerns about flooding. FEMA's current flood maps, dating back to 2018, may not accurately reflect current flood risks ...