Even a small amount of water inside a home can cause costly damage. Here’s how to assess your flood risk and what to do if ...

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

Before buying land in a floodplain, it’s crucial to understand flood maps, access issues, and elevation. This guide explains ...

FEMA flood maps are full of errors, cities say. ... Once an appeal is resolved, FEMA issues a letter of final determination and provides the final map to the community.

Those maps detail risk — where homes and property across the country fall within the “100-year floodplain,” for example, where there are usually special requirements for development, and ...

You put it in a Walmart parking lot, it will literally change the floodplain map that’s only updated every 10 years. I had maybe my hundredth presentation in Washington, D.C., about these FEMA maps.

A series of errors and inconsistencies contained in recently redone floodplain maps for Summit County are creating problems for local officials and new insurance requirements for homeowners. There are ...

The new FEMA flood maps do, indeed, reduce the base flood elevation - the required first-floor height above ground - for much of New Orleans to levels that are below heights required with the 1984 ...

APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (AZFamily) — FEMA is updating their floodplain map and some people in part of Apache Junction are learning this week their homes are now in flood zones. FEMA updates flood ...