If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his ...

In recent years, the rise of climate risk analytics models and private flood risk data have allowed the real estate, finance and insurance industries to rely less on FEMA's maps.

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate steps to prepare and mitigate potential losses. But there are areas of the ...

A hotter climate makes flooding more frequent and severe, and government flood maps aren’t keeping up with the change.

-- New high-tech maps are forcing many U.S. homeowners to buy flood insurance for the first time, while others who have had coverage are being cleared to drop their policies. The changes stem from ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...

Property owners here pay over $1.28 million per year in premiums for flood insurance, but in the 26-year history of the program, only $26,797 in claims have been paid.

The proposed law, adopting FEMA’s new Flood Insurance Rate Maps, would go into effect June 18, so long as the council sends it to the DEC by May 19.

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

A map of a section of Kerr County, Texas, where a deadly flood struck on July 4, 2025, compares the FEMA flood map's 100-year flood zone (red) to First Street's more detailed 100-year flood zone ...

advertisement 07-16-2025 IMPACT Why FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks There are areas of the country that flood, some regularly, that don’t show up on the maps as at risk.