A peer‑reviewed study of 78 floods finds 43% of North Carolina buildings that took on water over the past two decades sit ...

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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.

On the new maps in Palm Beach County, about 5,000 properties have moved to a high-risk flood zone, also considered a "special flood hazard area," from a low- or medium-risk flood zone.

The agency's maps can be found online at fema.gov/preliminaryfloodhazarddata. APPEALS PERIOD If by Nov. 15 no technical challenges are filed, FEMA has 30 to 45 days to produce detailed maps.

New evidence shows that Camp Mystic, the Texas girls’ summer camp where 27 campers and staff died after deadly flash floods on July 4, had successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management ...

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

Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had been considered part of a flood-hazard zone.

In total, 30 buildings were reportedly removed from the hazard zone between 2013 and 2020 RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty More than a dozen Camp Mystic buildings were removed from a FEMA flood map ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - FEMA has changed the flood zone maps in Bay County for the first time since 2009. This went into effect this October, according to Bay County officials.

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.