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.

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.

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

Following major flooding in Texas, New York and New Jersey, several Democratic states are suing to recoup the federal grants ...

Florida and the central Gulf Coast face a risk of flash flooding in the coming days. A summer camp in Central Texas serving disabled youths reopened barely a week after the flooding. An army of ...

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has sued the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) over its ...

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

Many Americans equate flood risk with whether or not they live in a flood zone, partly because that’s how federal agencies delineate risk. As a result, homeowners outside of an official flood ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore requested that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) conduct a damage assessment after flooding in western Maryland in mid-May. The flooding was brought on by ...

FEMA provides aid after natural disasters, but it’s not meant to replace your home insurance plan, especially as the agency is facing major changes.