FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...

Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...

While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community input, the maps still don't capture everything.

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...

Tompkins County officials and residents gathered Tuesday to learn how newly adopted FEMA flood maps will affect insurance ...

Tompkins County was required to adopt FEMA's new flood maps, which have not been updated since 1981. An informational meeting was held on Tuesday night in Ithaca aimed at helping reside ...

Below is a parish-by-parish list of sandbag locations ahead of potential flooding from a tropical disturbance this week.

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 ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Marilyn Mendez Arnett lives in an area of Tampa currently considered a ‘non-flood zone’ by FEMA, but that could change as the federal agency reports flood maps are under ...

The FEMA Region II office released updates to the flood hazard maps, known as flood insurance rate maps, for Atlantic County.