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 ...

If you need a mortgage for a home in a flood zone, your lender will likely require you to purchase flood insurance.

With flash flood warnings spiking and concerns over severe weather increasing across Central Virginia, the City of Richmond is taking action to finalize updated FEMA flood maps that will go into ...

A Flood Insurance Rate Map and Zone information are available by request from Douglas County’s Public Works Department to residents of unincorporated Douglas County to help determine if flood ...

Under the interlocal agreement, rather than FEMA approving the submittals, SARA will, resulting in a reduced timeline for ...

What homeowners and renters need to know about rising flood insurance rates, FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 and how to protect your ...

Some 400 residents in and around the former Hickory Ridge apartment complex are getting 2.73 million gallons of water storage ...

A long-awaited update to FEMA's flood maps for Harris County has been delayed again, eight years after Hurricane Harvey revealed how the current renderings drastically underestimate homeowners ...

Data from the First Street Foundation showed that 1.15 million properties in Texas face at least a 1% annual chance of ...

There are dozens of insurance rate zones within the special hazard ... what they usually mean is that a property is in an "X" flood zone. On flood maps a shaded X zone means there's between ...

The Georgetown neighborhood of D.C. has experienced a handful of major floods in the past century. Notably, the 1942 flood ...