Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management regulations at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, April 16, at Ithaca City Hall. The proposed law, adopting ...

The Illinois State Water Survey is continuing data development to analyze flood risks in six Central Illinois counties. The ...

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 ...

FEMA's updated maps have offered relief ... for some categories of homeowners whose rates are subsidized because their properties pre-date the flood insurance program. Others, including Kennedy ...

DENTON, Texas — FEMA released revised preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps, or FIRMs, for review by both residents and business owners in all communities and incorporated areas of Lafourche ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, Calif. – Santa Barbara County residents are encouraged to attend the open house event to discuss local flood ...

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

Updates to Monroe County Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) are nearly complete. The new map will provide Monroe County with up-to-date flood risk information and tools that can be used to enhance ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Property owners will have a chance to appeal the federal government’s new Flood Insurance Rate Maps on Oahu. Over the past five years, FEMA has studied flood risks ...

The proposed law, adopting FEMA’s new Flood Insurance Rate Maps, would go into effect June 18, so long as the council sends it to the DEC by May 19. “This legislation would set the boundaries ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property owners, according to Lisa Nicholas.