About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...

Multiple buildings at Camp Mystic in Texas, one of the many areas impacted by the flood disaster over the 4th of July weekend, were removed from Kerr County’s 100-year flood map, according to a report ...

A map of a section of Kerr County, Texas, where a deadly flood struck on July 4, 2025, compares the FEMA flood map’s 100-year flood zone (red) to First Street’s more detailed 100-year flood ...

I study flood-risk mapping as a university-based researcher and at First Street, an organization created to quantify and communicate climate risk. In a 2023 assessment using newly modeled flood ...

Council has warned insurers not to “cash in’’ on flood premiums when new mapping for 17,000 low-lying Brisbane properties is ...

At least 18 youth summer camps across North Carolina stand on or are very near federally designated floodways and flood zones ...

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps are intended to be the nation’s primary tool for identifying flood risks. Originally developed in the 1970s to support the National ...

The Central Texas floods should be a similar wake-up call. Hill Country needs its own version of FIRST. At the relatively paltry cost of $1-2 million, Gov. Greg Abbott could fund it right now through ...

Missoula County officials are preparing for the most significant floodplain changes in nearly 50 years, as updated maps are ...