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While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...
In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...
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 risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities, according to an ABC ...
Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...
Destructive flash flooding in Texas and other states is raising questions about the nation's flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...
There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.
Experts say Camp Mystic’s requests to amend the FEMA map could have been an attempt to avoid the requirement to carry flood ...
Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...
Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...