The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if they live in a designated flood zone. The tool can also be used to explore ...

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After a weekend of severe flash flooding across the DMV, including Montgomery County and Silver Spring, the Metropolitan ...

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 ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

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

PREPARATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE FLOOD in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents ...

FEMA allowed appeals from the camp to relax strict flood regulations despite knowing the area was high risk for '100 year ...

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.

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had ...

In an email, an unnamed FEMA spokesperson said the agency’s flood insurance risk maps and First Street’s maps do not conflict with each other, “rather they complement one another by ...

The most common reference for flood risk are the flood insurance rate maps, also known as 100-year floodplain maps, that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, produces.