About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

Missoula County officials are preparing for the most significant floodplain changes in nearly 50 years, as updated maps are set to be published in early August.

The sensors, which are being deployed over the next 18 months, use sonar technology to detect when water levels rise and ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in Eastern Tennessee are on alert as floods remain possible throughout Wednesday.

This is where FEMA’s flood maps come to rescue. These government-issued maps show which areas are most at risk, often near rivers, lakes or in low-lying spots.

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up. By Claire Brown On the heels of devastating flooding in Texas that killed more ...