FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...

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 ...

Last year, FEMA began employing an updated methodology, Risk Rating 2.0, which incorporates a wider set of variables, like pluvial flooding, so that flood insurance prices under the NFIP better ...

FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 is a new rating system for NFIP flood insurance policies. The program rolled out in two phases. Phase one began October 1, 2021 and entailed new policies being subject to ...

FEMA revamps flood insurance risk assessment; national flood insurance rates could skyrocket. Oct 04, 2021, 12:45pm Updated on Oct 04, 2021. By: News 12 Staff.

The Trump administration canceled a FEMA program in April that would have funded upgrades to protect the town from flooding. Then the Eno River rose more than 20 feet.

We explain what a FEMA flood elevation certificate (EC) is and how to get one. We also explain how it works with your home and flood insurance policies.

FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 is a new rating system for NFIP flood insurance policies. The program rolled out in two phases. Phase one began October 1, 2021 and entailed new policies being subject to ...

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.

As flood risks rise in the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) should update flood maps, set tougher standards for floodplain construction and prepare for climate change ...