About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...

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

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Morris added the reason these fairly recent maps might be outdated is because sea level rise is also worse than initially expected. The sea level, he said, “has risen 13 inches in the last 100 ...

Most of the camps were built decades ago, before modern modeling and flood maps. Counties have little power to regulate ...

In 2009, FEMA redrew the floodplain maps for both counties, but after a number of communities raised issues about the validity of the mapping, implementation was pulled.

Before the flood, floodplain maps were extremely outdated, said Witold Krajewski, the Flood Center director. “The utility of the information during the flood was inadequate,” he said. After the flood, ...