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

We quantify and map flood injustices at the city and county scale in ... Given the continued institutional reliance on FEMA flood zones, use of the 500-year floodplain aligns with existing regulatory ...

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 ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps ... Flood Insurance Program.” Federally backed mortgage holders are required to purchase flood insurance for properties in the 100-year flood zone.

Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management ... would set the boundaries for the 100- and 500-year floodplains,” city Director of Planning ...

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 ...