Harris County's draft FEMA flood maps could move thousands into higher-risk zones. Check your flood designation and ...

Roanoke County urges residents to check preliminary FEMA flood maps before finalizing in spring. Changes could change homeowners property values and insurance needs.

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...

Plus, 15 million doses of the vaccine have been trashed, Americans are going to national parks in record numbers, and more. Emily Francois walks through floodwaters beside her flood damaged home in ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

A floodplain map has three key components: base map imagery and/or cartographic line work, an elevation model representing the earth’s surface or “terrain,” and flood study results generated from ...

Kate Sherren or her trainees received funding for this work from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Nova Scotia ...

New preliminary flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are giving some Roanoke County homeowners a ...

Some new developments in Brunswick County are looking at 20-year-old floodplain data. A newer flood risk report could bring ...