Xactus, a fintech and market leader in verification solutions for the mortgage industry, is focused on broadening integrations in the ecosystem to support the loan life cycle beyond origination into ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special interests that profit even when communities don't.

Better maps could more accurately predict where flooding is likely to occur, especially in places previously lumped into a "500-year" flood zone, which has a .2% chance of flooding per year.

Federal forecasters predicted an unusually heavy hurricane season at a briefing in New Orleans on Thursday. “Everything’s in place for an above-average season,” Ken Graham, director of the United ...

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...

Midstate cities requesting FEMA to revise flood maps An 87-year-old Clarksville woman, who doesn’t live in a designated floodplain, has had her home flood four times since 2009.

A long-awaited update to FEMA's flood maps for Harris County has been delayed again, eight years after Hurricane Harvey revealed how the current renderings drastically underestimate homeowners ...

FEMA’s flood maps (including 500-year floodplains) have errors and uncertainties that can undermine accuracy and effectiveness (Huang and Merwade, 2023). A primary limitation stems from FEMA’s ...

Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain ... “This legislation would set the boundaries for the 100- and 500-year floodplains,” city Director of ...

Holmes explained that a 500-year flood is a large quantity of water that has a 1 in 500 chance of occurring in any one year. It can repeat again and again within your lifetime.

Sometimes you'll hear the phrase "100-year flood." Here's how meteorologists define that term and how to see if you live in a flood plain.

A "100-year flood" means a 1% chance of that level of flooding happening each year. Houston saw three 500-year flood events within three years from 2015 to 2017, including Hurricane Harvey ...