The federal government’s flood maps, which are used nationwide to signal areas vulnerable to inundation, vastly ...

In western North Carolina, the gaps in FEMA’s flood zones are even more pronounced. About 2,100 properties were in FEMA’s flood zone in Buncombe County compared to 19,500 identified as “at ...

Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene-related power outages were protected by flood insurance, according to an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data ...

Duke Ph.D. student Aljouhra AlHargan pointed to a simulated map of homes and businesses that could get flooded if a storm dumped more than a foot of rain on the tiny flood-prone town of Creswell, in ...

At 4:49 p.m. on Wednesday, the NWS Blacksburg VA issued a flood advisory in effect until 8 p.m. The advisory is for Ashe, ...

A news release from Attorney General Jeff Jackson warned N.C. residents to know the signs of flood damage when purchasing a ...

The worst flooding could be yet to come in several parts of North Carolina as rivers continue swelling to record levels in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Gov. Pat McCrory warned on Wednesday that ...

The nonprofit climate research group used federal elevation and population data to map the land ... that risk zone for the 100-year flood in 2050.” North Carolina ranks in the top 10 states ...

Flooding is worsening in parts of North Carolina, as water that fell in inland parts of the state and neighboring Virginia slowly pushes southeastward toward the Atlantic Ocean. More than 1,000 ...