Louisiana’s lower numbers today are the result of flood maps not being updated to take into account the protection provided by levees and other projects built since the maps were last published ...

Ascension’s flooding was estimated from 100-year flood maps from FEMA. Satellite photos of southeast Louisiana show damage to the electric grid during the storm. The images were released by NASA ...

A new map of the Louisiana Flood of 2016, based on satellite imagery and geographic data, shows tens of thousands of acres were under water across a 200-mile swatch from near Lake Charles to ...

Louisiana files lawsuit against FEMA due to increased flood insurance rates In the first map (below), we set the projections to include sea level rise and typical annual flooding (weather that can ...

“So much of it starts with what you define as a floodplain,” says Craig Colten, a geographer at Louisiana State University. FEMA creates flood risk maps that delineate areas of the region with ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued flood warnings and advisories across eight southern U.S. states on Thursday as ...

Flood insurance maps are used by mortgage and insurance ... Like thousands of other homes in Acadiana and Louisiana, the Barnett house flooded in August — twice — when 20 inches of rain ...

"So much of it starts with what you define as a floodplain," says Craig Colten, a geographer at Louisiana State University. FEMA creates flood risk maps that delineate areas of the region with a ...