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

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

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

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

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

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities, according to an ABC ...

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from its 100-year floodplain map for Kerr County, the AP reports.

Since 1968, FEMA has calculated and mapped flood risk for communities across the country. The agency uses these maps to set rates for its National Flood Insurance Program.

Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...

FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, which insures $1.25 trillion in assets, relies on these maps to assess risk, set premiums and determine who is required to purchase flood insurance.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp ...