Flood insurance mandates loom for Harris County residents who fall in updated FEMA flood zones, though official maps have ...

Much of the property is within a 500-year flood zone. In that kind of flood zone, federal officials calculate about a 6% chance of flooding that would seriously affect a property in a 30-year time ...

If the once-every-500-year Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake doesn’t do enough damage to the coastal Northwest on its own, frequent and widespread flooding from rising seas that follows will take ca ...

More than 17,000 people in Oregon, Washington and California could almost instantly be living in a floodplain, the ...

In the quiet foothills of Fruit Heights, what looks like a regular neighborhood road is actually a dry gulch and a regulatory ...

A major earthquake waiting to strike the Cascadia Subduction Zone isn’t the only natural disaster looming in the Pacific ...

WINCHESTER - In one of the easier votes the Planning Board will see, Town Meeting unanimously passed Article 4, allowing the town to update FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

The blue overlay represents the new one-in-20 year floodplain map where homes cannot be built. (Halifax Regional Municipality) Within the most restrictive one-in-20 zone, also called the floodway ...

If the earthquake happens in 75 years, when climate change has caused sea level to rise much further than it has today, the size of the floodplain ... subduction zone is between 500 and 600 ...