It's peak hurricane season but we use out-of-date maps to make decisions about insurance and where to build houses, ...

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.

FEMA has proposed updated flood maps that now include some Clearwater neighborhoods, following unprecedented flooding during ...

About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...

A researcher who studies flood-risk mapping says many politicians aren't interested in updating maps because it might trigger ...

Hurricane Harvey was the first major hurricane to make landfall along the US in over ten years, since the record 2005 ...

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

Remapping would update the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, floodplain maps of the DCC and a portion of the ...

New Braunfels allocates over $4 million for educational expansion and floodplain data update, including $3.8 million for ...

These maps define the 100-year floodplain in the eyes of the federal government, using a combination of the area’s topography and statistical models of historic rainfall data and bodies of water ...

The Indian government introduces a three-tier classification system for floodplains to regulate high-risk activities. The ...