Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

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

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...

Climate change is increasing the risk of dangerous floods. But people often balk at the cost of flood insurance, especially ...

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had ...

The federal response to the flash flooding disaster in Texas has come under scrutiny. President Trump, who has called for ...

The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities, according to an ABC ...

An NPR investigation finds that flood risk data from FEMA is out of date and that private companies show millions of people at risk from high waters. Laura Sullivan, on NPR’s investigations team, has ...

According to FEMA, Risk Rating 2.0 was created under the Biden administration as a new approach to flood risk assessment through new data. The system checks factors such as flood frequency, flood ...