A "100-year flood" means a 1% chance of that level of flooding happening each year. Houston saw three 500-year flood events within three years from 2015 to 2017, including Hurricane Harvey.

Argentina declared three days of national mourning following flash floods that claimed 16 lives in Bahia Blanca, where a year's rain fell within hours, inundating neighbourhoods. Two young girls ...

Levees are built to control nature, but nature often wins, as it did during the Pájaro River flood. The consequences of its decisions can be deadly. The most horrific failure in recent memory ...

They are issued on fewer than 4% of days per year on average, but are responsible for more than 80% of all flood-related damage and 36% of all flood-related deaths, WPC research shows.

Properties across the East of England could get the "long-term protection they need" after the Environment Agency (EA) pledged to spend £68m on flood schemes. The investment will help safeguard ...

Generational flood event starts tonight: Severe thunderstorms will dump gushing rain on parts of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys starting late Wednesday. It’s the first of many, many rounds of ...

The National Weather Service recently released its 2025 Spring Flood Outlook for St. Louis. The outlook shows the vast majority of communities have below-normal flood risks for the coming season ...

Flood schemes in Devon and Cornwall will receive about £33m of government funding, the Environment Agency (EA) has said. It said the plan to put "fresh funding" into 70 flood schemes in the ...

(Photo by Albert Perez/Getty Images) Albert and Logan Rivers received a major flood warning, with people in the following regions told to seek out higher ground: Tamborine, Cedar Creek, Wolfdene ...

ATHENS, April 1 - Schools and kindergartens were closed on several Greek islands including Paros and Mykonos on Tuesday after severe weather brought torrential rain, flooding and hailstorms to the ...