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 ...

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

The FEMA records noted that other parts of Camp Mystic remained in a flood risk zone, which subjects construction in the zone to federal, state and local flood regulations.

What to do if you are in a flood zone It doesn't take feet of water to cause thousands of dollars in damage. Even an inch of floodwater inside a home can lead to ruined flooring, structural issues ...

A map of a section of Kerr County, Texas, where a deadly flood struck on July 4, 2025, compares the FEMA flood map’s 100-year flood zone (red) to First Street’s more detailed 100-year flood ...

I study flood-risk mapping as a university-based researcher and at First Street, an organization created to quantify and communicate climate risk. In a 2023 assessment using newly modeled flood ...

And that was an act of Congress—no pun intended—to get our insurance on that,” he said. In 2021, FEMA implemented Risk Rating 2.0, a new methodology for determining flood insurance premiums.

FEMA’s official flood maps show that some of the camp’s cabins were within a “floodway,” a particularly hazardous area where dangerous floodwaters would be expected to flow.

Camp Mystic successfully appealed to remove several structures from a FEMA flood zone, despite being located in a high-risk flood area in Texas Hill Country.

BRIGANTINE- Government representatives will provide information on the new flood plan updates at a Flood Risk Open House 4-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5 in the cafeteria of the Ventnor Education ...

Using their own data, the group discovered more than 4,500 homes were actually in danger. Even when FEMA does mark the most dangerous flood areas, though, those warnings are not always heeded.

Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management regulations at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, April 16, at Ithaca City Hall.