WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Williamson County’s commissioners court Tuesday approved its emergency management department to acquire its first-ever real-time flood mapping application. This in an ...

A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery's childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in ...

The maps show projected risk of flooding throughout the two parishes and are used to help determine who needs flood insurance and how much it will cost. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is ...

DAVIDSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A couple of weeks ago, hundreds of Davidson County residents received a letter in the mail stating that their properties were now classified as being on a flood plain.

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property owners, according to Lisa Nicholas. The ...

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are 'high risk.' This study suggests that this framing may give developers and homeowners a false ...

Canada’s outdated flood maps put people at risk. In Montreal, a battle over updating them highlights a nationwide worry over ...

Common methods of communicating flood risk may create a false sense of security, leading to increased development in areas threatened by flooding. This phenomenon, called the “safe development paradox ...