A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit ...

The number of structures at risk of flooding in the United States could be higher than previously thought, according to a study published Monday ...

For purposes of the study, FEMA has defined a 100-year rainfall as 15.3 inches of rain within 24 hours in the mountains above Montecito and Carpinteria, or 7.8 inches within 24 hours on the coast.

The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)released a report that says a 7.7 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone would cause widespread and ...

Kerr County sits in a region known as Flash Flood Alley, and at least four cabins at Camp Mystic sat in an extremely ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to develop a new database aimed at providing more precise locations of ...

PREPARATIONS FOR A POSSIBLE FLOOD in Santa Rosa this year include more than having a disaster kit ready because residents ...

Feb. 24—The Federal Emergency Management Agency has presented coastal erosion hazard projections for Essex County, including Cape Ann, for 2030, 2050 and 2100. In 2015, the federal agency's ...

Report shows officials removed dozens of buildings at Camp Mystic, located in ‘flash flood alley,’ from flood-risk maps ...

These flood hazard determinations, together with the floodplain management criteria required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that are required. They should not be construed to mean that the ...

The modified flood hazard determinations are made pursuant to section 206 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105, and are in accordance with the National Flood Insurance Act ...