Flood hazard data comes from First Street Foundation ... Managing a fire- or flood-prone region safely or finding ways to build new housing while operating within zoning, land use and historic ...

Inland areas have suffered severe flooding in recent years, experts note. And standard homeowner policies don’t cover flood ...

Florida built 77,000 new properties in high-risk flood areas since 2019, the most in the nation, according to an analysis by climate-modeling firm First Street Foundation for The Wall Street Journal.

If the agency pays to rebuild a school or a town hall, for example, it might elevate the building above the floodplain ... us to enhance resilience in flood-prone communities by taking future ...

When a property meets the 50% threshold, the structure must be brought into compliance with current NFIP minimum requirements. This usually means raising the building to the base flood elevation (“BFE ...

A new solution for flood-prone cities? Concrete made from shellfish ... Meanwhile, the more recycled material that you can put into a building material like cement, the lower the carbon footprint ...

The foundation hopes this project will serve as a model for other homeowners in the flood-prone neighborhood ... elaborated after the hearing. "Why build new houses, if you can elevate them?

The Pierce County Planning and Public Works Surface Water Management department was awarded a $10 million FEMA Building Resilient ... and one duplex from the flood plain. As of Thursday it was ...

With help from the county, Charleston is moving forward with buying flood-prone property in the far ... the city's new building regulations required developers to balance any new fill by digging ...