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 you’re in the danger zone.

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had ...

A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit ...

Back in 2011, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) included Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian camp, in a “Special ...

Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...

Flaws in FEMA flood maps leave millions unprepared. Some are trying to fix that. Skip to content. ... Pearl Dennis bought her house, which isn’t in a FEMA hazard area, in 2015.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to develop a new database aimed at providing more precise locations of ...

PREPARATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE FLOOD in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents ...

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

More than 1,900 Town properties are located in FEMA special flood hazard area zones, with 37 having been added to new maps introduced in 2019.

“FEMA felt that these maps had not been updated in close to 40 years in some instances,” he says. Todd says for the people now out of the zone, it means flood insurance may not be not required.

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.