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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 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.

First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that publishes and sells risk factor data, estimates that 15% of Vermont properties are located in a 1% annual chance flood zone, compared to FEMA’s 1.6% to ...