While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community input, the maps still don't capture everything.

Just one month after deadly Texas floods claimed more than 130 lives, officials in Fulton County have created new, digital ...

A researcher who studies flood-risk mapping says many politicians aren't interested in updating maps because it might trigger ...

Santa Barbara County residents who own property in a former Recovery Map High Hazard Area (HHA) for flooding may no longer need permitting review from the ...

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

New Braunfels allocates over $4 million for educational expansion and floodplain data update, including $3.8 million for ...

Most of the camps were built decades ago, before modern modeling and flood maps. Counties have little power to regulate ...

When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood ...

While FEMA flood maps are a trusted government resource on flooding, many of the maps are decades old, according to Dean Tarulli, a certified flood plain manager with Tidal Basin Group.

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