FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

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 ...

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

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

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

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...

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 ...

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 July Fourth flood moved so quickly in the middle of the night that it caught many off guard in a county that lacked a ...

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.