The National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) earlier said a magnitude 8.0 quake struck off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia ...

Jennifer Siegel-Luersen stands in a street filled with flood debris in North Plainfield, N.J., Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

Federal regulators removed Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map years before 27 children were lost in severe floods, an Associated Press review found. According to the New York ...

Searches were suspended and a new flash flood warning was issued in Kerrville and Kerr County, Texas, on July 13 in the wake of the flooding that struck the area last week on July 4. The warning ...

Volunteer operations have been suspended in Kerr County as heavy rainfall has triggered flash flood warnings.

What To Know The AP report said that federal regulators had approved appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map in the years before this month's flood.

That designation means an area is likely to be inundated during a 100-year flood — one severe enough that it only has a 1% chance of happening in any given year.

FEMA exempted buildings at old and new sites In response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013 amended the county's flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area.