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.

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

Texans can check their home's flood risk using FEMA’s Flood Map Service, local floodplain administrators, and insurance tools ...

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

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 ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delayed decisions on flood zone determinations — in some cases by two years or more — and currently has more than 240 mapping projects on hold ...

A new report examines the issues that property owners nationwide in high flood risk areas may encounter should the Federal ...

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.

FEMA flood risk maps affect development decisions and insurance for individual properties. Griffin updated the Montecito Planning Commission on the process at last week’s meeting.. About 1,400 ...

When Hurricane Harvey ripped through Hitchcock, Texas, in August, it wasn’t just pummeled by nature. The town of 7,300, just across the bay from Galveston, was also the victim of a bad map: The ...