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

But FEMA's insurance maps are based on past patterns of flooding. Future sea level rise — which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones — is not factored in. So some communities are ...

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

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

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has delayed decisions on flood zone determinations — in some cases by two years or more — and currently has more than 240 mapping projects on hold ...

More cabins and buildings at Camp Mystic — the tragic site of more than two dozen deaths in the Texas flood — were at risk of ...

Overdevelopment in flood-prone areas and inadequate mapping by the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely contributed to the tragedy that unfolded in central Texas July 4, when sudden flooding of ...

At least 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic perished in Friday's floods, with the total death toll in the floods now ...

While First Street pegged the store as a “moderate” flood risk, FEMA does not include it in its hazard area. “If we were in a flood zone, we probably wouldn’t have bought,” said Hayes.

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 flood risk maps affect development decisions and insurance for individual properties. Griffin updated the Montecito Planning Commission on the process at last week’s meeting.. About 1,400 ...