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 ...

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

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

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...

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

Destructive flash flooding in Texas and other states is raising questions about the nation's flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...

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

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

Records reveal FEMA repeatedly granted Camp Mystic’s appeals to remove buildings from flood hazard zones, years before the ...

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

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...