Would you consider lifting your home?? One North Fort Myers family just lifted their home 11 feet off the ground after three floods - and they're about to move in, right in time for hurricane season.

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Flood zones across the Bay Area are changing and FEMA was on hand in Manatee County this week to explain what this means for residents. Flood zones changing in Manatee ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Marilyn Mendez Arnett lives in an area of Tampa currently considered a ‘non-flood zone’ by FEMA, but that could change as the federal agency reports flood maps are under ...

Bradenton and Palmetto are considering more intense coastline development while Sarasota and Manatee counties struggle with flooding concerns.

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 ...

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 ...

(WFLA) — Hundreds of flooded-out homeowners in Flood Zone “X” face denied insurance ... with regional partners such as the Southwest Florida Water Management District and our neighboring ...

While we were merrily distracted, tens of thousands of Florida ... risk flood zones. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released its widely anticipated new flood risk maps on Dec ...

While we were merrily distracted, tens of thousands of Florida homeowners ... there are ways to change your flood zone designation with a LOMA – a Letter of Map Amendment – if you think ...

Construction costs in Midtown likely will jump now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated its flood zone maps, raising ... Commission, The Florida Division of Historic Resources ...

Residents have since struggled to rebuild their lives in the town just west of Montreal, but Mayor François Robillard says the new flood zone maps are sparking more frustration. “Citizens are ...