Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...

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

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.

Homeowners across New Jersey who carry national flood insurance could see rates skyrocket as the Federal Emergency Management Agency revamps its risk assessment following a summer of devastating ...

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 ...

The Trump administration canceled a FEMA program in April that would have funded upgrades to protect the town from flooding.

For large and small jurisdictions, FEMA’s National Risk Index can provide data on 18 different hazards and what an outcome of those hazards may be, allowing for officials and individuals 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.