Even a small amount of water inside a home can cause costly damage. Here’s how to assess your flood risk and what to do if you’re in the danger zone.

As coastal Georgia rapidly develops and approaches an abnormally wet hurricane season, its flood zone maps need an upgrade.

“FEMA felt that these maps had not been updated in close to 40 years in some instances,” he says. Todd says for the people now out of the zone, it means flood insurance may not be not required.

More than 1,900 Town properties are located in FEMA special flood hazard area zones, with 37 having been added to new maps introduced in 2019.

FEMA officials have testified to Congress that over 40 percent of NFIP claims made in 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones, or in areas the agency had yet to map.

Satellite maps of Barre, Vermont, show FEMA’s 100-year-flood zone in red. First street Foundation’s analysis found a much larger 100-year-flood zone, as marked in blue.

Multiple buildings at Camp Mystic in Texas, one of the many areas impacted by the flood disaster over the 4th of July weekend ...

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

Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...

When the non-profit climate research firm First Street Foundation compared its flood model to FEMA’s maps the report found that, as of 2020, 5.9 million properties and property owners are ...

Wall estimates 1,400 properties in West Palm Beach were added to FEMA’s special flood hazard area zones that would require mortgage holders to have flood insurance.