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

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

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.

Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...

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 ...

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

Preparations for a possible flood in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents will be asked to obtain flood insurance for newly designated flood-prone areas ...

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had been considered part of a flood-hazard zone.

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.