FEMA’s flood risk maps receive less attention, but are a powerful risk communication tool. FEMA produces these maps for more than 20,000 communities that participate in the insurance program.

Monkey Cage Hurricane Harvey shows how floods don’t pay attention to flood zone maps — or politicians September 7, 2017 More than 7 years ago Summary ...

Since the new flood plain rules were set in Harris County, experts note higher construction cost, fewer favorable sites and increased time to permit and build.

Harvey inundated rivers, bayous, canals and highways in some of the most densely populated parts of the Houston metro area, which is home to 4.5 million people.

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

New maps will show urban flooding risk In past storms like the Memorial Day flood, the Tax Day flood and Hurricane Harvey, many people who flooded were caught by surprise.

At Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas, where officials are grieving the loss of 27 children and counselors, belongings of the young campers were strewn about the flooded floors of a ...

Under the rule, new structures in the 100-year and 500-year flood plains would be constructed 2 feet above the ground or above the projected water level in a 500-year flood, an event in which 17 ...

A long-awaited update to FEMA's flood maps for Harris County has been delayed again, eight years after Hurricane Harvey revealed how the current renderings drastically underestimate homeowners ...

Post Harvey, 1 in 8 Houston homes permitted are in floodplains, as developers reshape flood maps Spring Brook Village, a master-planned community, is built several feet higher than the surrounding ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in a Texas county devastated by Hurricane Harvey approved new regulations Tuesday on building construction in flood-prone locations, rules they touted as the nation's ...