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New FEMA flood maps

FEMA has proposed updated flood maps that now include some Clearwater neighborhoods, following unprecedented flooding during ...
Starting in September, property sellers won't need to inform buyers whether their land is in a flood zone. What they have to do instead.
A researcher who studies flood-risk mapping says many politicians aren't interested in updating maps because it might trigger ...
The new flood maps were “a good first step,” said George Kasimos, the founder of a Facebook group called Stop FEMA Now, which has 4,700 followers. Kasimos lobbied for FEMA to shrink the highest-risk ...
Recent federal changes to FEMA flood plain maps will affect city projects that include the rezoning of part of the north side ...
It's peak hurricane season but we use out-of-date maps to make decisions about insurance and where to build houses, ...
This week, FEMA officials held meetings with New Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard, Plaquemines and St. Charles Parish officials to go over the mapping approval process, begin presenting some of the ...
According to a news release from City Hall, FEMA will release its new Flood Insurance Rate Maps Sept. 30.
So when new National Flood Insurance Program maps, based on data collected by FEMA, went into effect for Dallas on Nov. 2, 2012, Ginocchetti was taken aback to find his store was halfway in the ...