Camp Mystic successfully petitioned FEMA to exempt 15 more of its buildings from flood zone designations in 2019 and 2020. These appeals came as the camp expanded its facilities.

12:22 p.m. July 14, 2025: Updated to include maps of flood risk model and FEMA 100-year flood plain Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100 ...

At least 12 structures at Camp Mystic Guadalupe were fully within FEMA's 100-year flood plain, and a few more were partially in that zone, according to an AP analysis of data provided by First ...

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 ...

FEMA exempted buildings at old and new sites In response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013 amended the county’s flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area.

The camp requested that FEMA, the agency responsible for creating maps that help warn Americans where water might rise, remove more than a dozen buildings from what FEMA designates a floodplain at ...

FEMA’s official flood maps show that some of the camp’s cabins were within a “floodway,” a particularly hazardous area where dangerous floodwaters would be expected to flow.

Camp Mystic successfully appealed to remove several structures from a FEMA flood zone, despite being located in a high-risk flood area in Texas Hill Country.

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 ...