The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

First Street Foundation, a nonprofit that publishes and sells risk factor data, estimates that 15% of Vermont properties are located in a 1% annual chance flood zone, compared to FEMA’s 1.6% to ...