As insurance costs have increased, representatives from the N.C. Department of Insurance and statewide flood organizations ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

Despite complicated politics of trying to rebuild and mitigate against future floods, local knowledge provides path for ...

Hurricane season began on June 1. Now is the time to take a look at your homeowners insurance policy and make sure you’re ...

Shelved plans from ’60s for Tennessee Valley Authority project in N.C. unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated ... flood insurance for mortgage-backed properties there. In Asheville and its surrounding towns in western North Carolina ...

Asheville is moving forward with the project that will rebuild its parks along the Swannanoa River, an area hard hit by ...

ASHEVILLE - With the future of development ... The 500-year floodplain indicates where properties have an annual .2% chance of flooding. Maps of the floodplains are developed by the National ...

ASHEVILLE - As the waters rushed through the ... Both Smith and Pilos are both within the boundaries of the 100-year flood map. Pilos believes his building would have survived the flood, but ...

National Centers for Environmental Information’s Asheville office, says drawing accurate flood maps is inherently difficult because rainfall and flood records only go back so far. How ...

Asheville Watchdog analyzed active insurance ... according to the National Flood Insurance Program data. But FEMA’s flood zone maps are “notoriously understated” and “the flood risk ...

In Buncombe County, where rising waters swamped areas like Asheville and Swannanoa, First Street’s maps show a much larger area of flood risk than the FEMA maps do. About 2,100 properties out of ...