Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...

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 ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

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

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

The deadly Texas floods have raised questions about U.S. flood maps and their ability to ensure communities can prepare for ...

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

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 ...

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

Less than 5% of homes in the county's FEMA floodplain had flood coverage, well below the national average. Uptake was even ...

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.