WILLIAMSPORT—Work is finally underway to have the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recertify the second largest flood control ...

Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to recent geological studies, rapidly transformed a dry and salty basin into ...

The largest known meteorological flood—one caused by rainfall, as in the current Mississippi River flood—happened in 1953, when the Amazon River overflowed.

Florida lacks the hilly topography that supercharged torrential rain into deadly inundations in Central Texas over the July ...

The Largest Flood in Earth's History . Daniel García-Castellanos & Paul Carling The Conversation April 15, 2025 GEBCO / National Oceanographic Centre, UK, CC BY-NC-SA A little over 5 million years ago ...

Kynda Edmonson, a San Saba resident, said her home is completely destroyed. "My furniture, my cabinets, everything in the ...

The result, according to First Street, is that NOAA is substantially underestimating the risk of severe rain in some of the nation’s largest cities: Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston ...

From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.