Revisions to FEMA's flood maps will remove 300 homes in Quincy from the flood zone. The change could save residents a combined $300,000 annually in flood insurance costs. The revised map ...

These horizontally drawn maps fail to account ... imagine two homes in the same coastal flood zone. One sits 12 feet above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE) on a hill, while the other rests in ...

A sink hole has developed at Rushing Street and Ford Avenue. This is the same area that saw quite a bit of flood damage back in August. The city has closed a portion of the road until repairs can be ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions." ...

Given that he's sired four Belmont Stakes (G1) winners—Tonalist , Creator , Tapwrit , and Essential Quality —the offspring of three-time leading sire Tapit have made surprisingly little impact ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

Question: Regarding Oahu’s new flood map, the city says you can appeal if your property is placed in a high-risk zone and you have to get flood insurance because of that.Is hardship a grounds ...

The Georgia Power company will hold a five-hour long planned outage in Richmond Hill from 12:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 ...

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

Cal Fire explains these maps function similarly to flood zone maps, "where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being inundated by floodwaters, and not ...