The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delayed decisions on flood zone determinations — in some cases by two years or more — and currently has more than 240 mapping projects on hold ...

WASHINGTON, July 27-- The Association of State Floodplain Managers, Madison, Wisconsin, has issued a public comment on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's notice entitled "Technical Mapping ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

The deadly flash flooding in Texas on July 4, 2025, and destructive flash floods a week later in states including New Mexico , Vermont and Iowa are ...

FEMA’s maps represent the government’s best estimates of flood plains. They hold a lot of power: When property isn’t included on FEMA’s “magical map,” its residents aren’t required ...

If FEMA doesn’t find the funds and political will to reform its flood mapping system, it won’t stop the flooding. We’ll just continue to be underprepared, inundated, and overwhelmed. Read More ...

Maps by First Street, a climate risk modeling company in New York City, show at least 17 structures in the path of flood waters, compared to maps produced by FEMA, highlighting a ... that doesn't have ...

Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that ...

Homeowners with federally backed mortgages in high-risk flood zones — where the annual chance of flooding is estimated at 1 percent or higher — are required by law to purchase flood insurance ...

Proposed revisions to the city's 100-year flood plain map - which would place most properties in North Platte outside the flood plain - will be submitted to the Federal Emergency ...

Around 6,000 homes were moved into FEMA's new flood zone mapping with up to 1,000 along the Honore Avenue axis in Palmer Ranch. About 6,000 homes were impacted after they were moved into FEMA's ...

A new nationwide model of flood risk finds that across the country, almost 70 percent more properties are at risk of flooding than the Federal Emergency Management Agency's maps show.