Outdated FEMA flood maps labeled thousands of North Carolina ... Williams says she would have acted differently during Helene had she known the risk. “It’s 2024—the technology is there ...

Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene-related ... not cover the risk of flooding,” said Trevor Burgess, the CEO of Neptune Flood, who lives in St ...

When Kriston Hicks first got an alert of a flash flood emergency at ... risk of life-threatening flooding” along the Tennessee-North Carolina border as Helene moved through.

Helene, a Category 4 hurricane, brought unprecedented rainfall, storm surges and coastal flooding to vulnerable ... First, FEMA's flood maps, which determine whether a homeowner is required ...

All but a few of the maps ... to Helene include philosophical differences over how much government should try to reduce the risk of flood damage and uncertainty over how likely flooding is in ...

Debris littered throughout Swannanoa, N.C., in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The Federal ... western North Carolina affected by flooding had FEMA flood maps that were 12 to 15 years old ...

(The Center Square) – An estimated $406 million in damage was avoided during Hurricane Helene because of flood mitigation ... “We saw a record amount of flooding and we saw tremendous amounts ...

Those maps — which are now widely and incorrectly used to understand flood risk more broadly — are often out of date and don’t focus on the danger of rain-caused flooding, even as rain ...

Collier County is under a local state of emergency as Tropical Storm Helene ... flood event. There's at least a one in four chance of flooding within a 30-year mortgage Marked as A or V on flood ...

Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson The family of a Tennessee employee who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has filed ... was aware of the flood risks, and while employees ...