FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...

The camp where 27 girls died successfully challenged initial risk designations by US regulators, according to reports.

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

Less than 5% of homes in the county's FEMA floodplain had flood coverage, well below the national average. Uptake was even ...

FEMA is anticipated to open a 90-day public appeal and comment period in the winter where property owners can formally ...

Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA failed to include multiple buildings on its flood risk map for Camp Mystic in ...

Overdevelopment in flood-prone areas and inadequate mapping from the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely contributed to the tragedy that unfolded in central Texas July 4, when sudden flooding ...

More cabins and buildings at Camp Mystic — the tragic site of more than two dozen deaths in the Texas flood — were at risk of ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.