What FEMA flood maps miss FEMA's maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

After a weekend of severe flash flooding across the DMV, including Montgomery County and Silver Spring, the Metropolitan ...

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

FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

What FEMA flood maps miss FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness. One major limitation is that they don’t consider flooding driven by ...

advertisement 07-16-2025 IMPACT Why FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks There are areas of the country that flood, some regularly, that don’t show up on the maps as at risk.

What FEMA flood maps miss FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

A map of a section of Kerr County, Texas, where a deadly flood struck on July 4, 2025, compares the FEMA flood map’s 100-year flood zone (red) to First Street’s more detailed 100-year flood ...