If Steve Dunning’s Okie Dokies Smokehouse in Swannanoa appeared on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood maps, his ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls' summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it ...

Multiple buildings at Camp Mystic in Texas, one of the many areas impacted by the flood disaster over the 4th of July weekend ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...

A hotter climate makes flooding more frequent and severe, and government flood maps aren’t keeping up with the change.

Back-to-back flooding disasters in recent years — in Texas, New Mexico and Kentucky, among many others — have showed that ...

The latest news and top stories on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). A prominent Washington D.C.-based federal governmental body, FEMA is dedicated to coordinating the U.S. government’s ...

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency released preliminary flood maps for the Santa Rosa Creek Watershed on July 8. The new maps identify approximately 2,500 properties within specially ...

The loss of autonomy and direct reporting to Congress, unfunded mandates outside the scope of the 1988 Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and major increases in the number of large ...