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Residents learned about FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and picked up free sandbags and weather alert radios at a community meeting Saturday.
Just months after Fairbanks transformed from a riverside camp to a booming new city, a devastating 1905 flood put its fragile ...
BUTLER COUNTY, Kan. (KWCH) - Emergency departments in areas impacted by recent flooding once again are preparing for incoming rain. With more in the forecast on the heels of widespread flooding ...
Fairbanks North Star Borough leaders say property owners could see millions of dollars in insurance savings as the borough ...
A flood advisory was issued by the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC on Thursday at 11:18 a.m. in effect until 2:15 p.m. for ...
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 ...
A long-awaited update to FEMA's flood maps for Harris County has been delayed again, eight years after Hurricane Harvey revealed how the current renderings drastically underestimate homeowners ...
Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management regulations at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, April 16, at Ithaca City Hall. The proposed law, adopting ...
Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property owners, according to Lisa Nicholas.
Sixty-nine-year-old Len Perno has lived in his Gates home for 30 years. He always imagined that he would one day sell his house and move with his wife to a ranch near their children. That dream ...
Revisions to FEMA's flood maps will remove 300 homes in Quincy from the flood zone. The change could save residents a combined $300,000 annually in flood insurance costs. The revised map ...