Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, ...

State Representative Brooks Landgraf (R-Odessa) has filed House Bill 249 during the current legislative session to protect ...

Our analysis of FEMA flood maps in the Austin area show many homes devastated by July floods were in high-risk areas. Experts ...

People swept from campsites, cabins and RV parks account for almost one third of the flood deaths in Kerr County, a Chronicle ...

Floods can happen almost anywhere across the United States, but some places are more prone to flooding than others. Here's ...

The Trump administration appears to be drastically reducing the federal funds it offers to help states head off future ...

Home prices often rise after major disasters due to lower supply. See how the hardest-hit areas recovered—and how that affects buying and selling homes in those markets.

FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

Flood risks are intensifying as Texas experiences more extreme rainfall. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon and colleagues at Texas A&M University found that extreme one-day precipitation has ...

Betty Matteson’s four children, nine grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren have squeezed into her Texas Hill Country home countless times since 1968.

US regulators reportedly granted appeals to remove many Camp Mystic buildings from official flooding risk maps years before 27 children ... through the premises before dawn on 4 July. Across Texas, at ...

A 2024 report by the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) found that East Palo Alto, a ...