Federal flood maps for New Hampshire — which determine, among other things, cost and availability of flood insurance — are being upgraded. That makes sense because scientific models of possible ...

Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...

Federal regulators repeatedly removed dozens of Camp Mystic’s cabins from their 100-year flood maps — clearing the way for the camp to expand into the dangerous floodplain years before the Guadalupe ...

Just one month after deadly Texas floods claimed more than 130 lives, officials in Fulton County have created new, digital flood maps. Fulton County’s current flood maps were drawn up in the 1980s.

About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own flood mapping and appeal. When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas ...

When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater. At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the building in 11 feet of ...

As the Texas Legislature considers policy responses to the deadly Fourth of July weekend floods during the ongoing special legislative session, experts say state lawmakers are overlooking a key factor ...

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the ...