But residents of North Carolina and Tennessee were ... government’s officially designated flood zones. For years, experts have criticized the maps created by the United States’ Federal ...

A screenshot of the Flood Zone Information Map operated by the Evansville/Vanderburgh County Building Commission. Link: City of Evansville/Vanderburgh County Flood Zone Information Map When ...

she often directs them first to the Building Commission's flood zone map, which uses shaded colors and a corresponding legend to quickly deliver flood risk information to users. Residents can ...

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 ...

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are 'high risk ... described in a new paper from North Carolina State University.

Construction costs in Midtown likely will jump now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated its flood zone maps, raising the required ground elevations for future construction.

BOONE — The North Carolina ... flood maps. The Town of Boone uses the FIRMs to regulate its flood ordinance and determine the boundaries of regulated floodplain areas. The preliminary FIRMs are ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - FEMA has changed the flood zone maps in Bay County for the first time since 2009. This went into effect this October, according to Bay County officials. Flood zones ...

PANAMA CITY — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revised and reissued its Flood Insurance Study for Bay County. The new flood zone map pushes flooding threats further inland from ...

Recent disasters like Hurricane Helene, which severely flooded inland, mountainous parts of North Carolina ... Many of FEMA’s flood zone maps haven’t been updated in years, and even those ...

“In many areas, the flood zones have expanded due to the increase ... on the NC Flood Risk Information System website at https://fris.nc.gov/,” a county announcement states. The maps will be used to ...