While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

Texans can check their home's flood risk using FEMA’s Flood Map Service, local floodplain administrators, and insurance tools ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had ...

More cabins and buildings at Camp Mystic — the tragic site of more than two dozen deaths in the Texas flood — were at risk of ...

FEMA is anticipated to open a 90-day public appeal and comment period in the winter where property owners can formally ...

I study flood-risk mapping as a university-based researcher and at First Street, ... An example is New York City’s appeal of a 2015 FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps update.

Even in places where the FEMA maps identified a flood risk, we found that the federal mapping process, its overreliance on historical data, and political influence over the updating of maps can ...

Cities and counties can strengthen their defenses — even on tight budgets — with smarter maps, stronger codes and regional ...

Camp Mystic, a renowned girls’ summer camp nestled by the Guadalupe River, faced tragedy when devastating floods struck the ...

Using FEMA's data, First Street found just 2,560 homes at risk in the area. Using their own data, the group discovered more than 4,500 homes were actually in danger. Even when FEMA does mark the most ...

Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that ...