The Federal Emergency Management Agency can’t get out of a lawsuit by the city of Atlanta after approving only $200 of the city’s request for $1.2 million in flood repair costs, a federal ...

A federal judge ordered that the Federal Emergency Management Agency could not have an Atlanta lawsuit filed against it dismissed. The City of Atlanta was suing FEMA to get back $1.2 million for ...

But Jones’s Penrose neighborhood isn’t designated as a high-risk location on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps. These high-risk zones, which lie in what’s called the ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...

New flood maps issued by FEMA are set to go into effect starting Dec. 20. So what does that mean for you? High risk means there's a 1-in-4 chance of flooding, medium/low risk means anything less.

And Foley, a retired insurance broker and state legislator, knew that changes to Federal Emergency Management Agency floodplain maps were coming. For our 2024 Earth Day series, the New England ...

ATLANTA — The Federal Emergency Management Agency can’t get out of a lawsuit by the city of Atlanta after approving only $200 of the city’s request for $1.2 million in flood repair costs, a ...

After years of waiting on the still-pending appeal, Atlanta learned in 2014 that FEMA had issued a document for repairs less than $37,000, then the agency “deducted ‘anticipated flood ...