But Beryl exposed cracks in the armor that Houston area residents have smithed over the last couple decades. Moreover, ...

Even after dropping 1,300 bills to focus on the budget, the Florida Legislature passed more than 100 new laws that start July 1. Here's what to know.

FEMA flood maps: Find out if you live in a floodplain in Indiana. Visit www.fema.gov to find out how often floods happen in your area. Use tools, maps and past claims data to understand your flood ...

NPR and the PBS series Frontline investigate the forces keeping communities from building resiliently, and the special ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Exceptionally high flood risk expected in Ozarks due to catastrophic and life-threatening flooding. 100-year flood ... given year. This is the same for a 500-year flood ... FEMA’s flood risk ...

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.