While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...

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

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

More cabins and buildings at Camp Mystic — the tragic site of more than two dozen deaths in the Texas flood — were at risk of ...

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

But FEMA's insurance maps are based on past patterns of flooding. Future sea level rise — which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones — is not factored in. So some communities are ...

Since 1968, FEMA has calculated and mapped flood risk for communities across the country. The agency uses these maps to set rates for its National Flood Insurance Program.

Preparations for a possible flood in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents will be asked to obtain flood insurance for newly designated flood-prone areas ...

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 July Fourth flood moved so quickly in the middle of the night that it caught many off guard in a county that lacked a ...

The FEMA flood risk maps do not consider clogged culverts or bridges as the recovery maps did. They also do not consider a burned watershed, which would create higher peak flows, Griffin said.