FEMA has proposed updated flood maps that now include some Clearwater neighborhoods, following unprecedented flooding during ...

More than 33 million Americans were under coastal flood advisories on Aug 20 as Hurricane Erin head north toward the U.S.

Some residents living near Alligator Creek in northern Pinellas County may need to purchase flood insurance next year. The ...

About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...

Experts in flood mitigation see a national system decades behind. A recently disbanded FEMA advisory group was supposed to ...

Recent federal changes to FEMA flood plain maps will affect city projects that include the rezoning of part of the north side ...

Floodplain maps have been redrawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Delaware, a change that could shift properties into or out of a flood risk zone.

While FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program did release newer maps after Sandy in November 2012, New York challenged their accuracy. New Jersey did the same soon after. Coney Island.

Before the flood, floodplain maps were extremely outdated, said Witold Krajewski, the Flood Center director. “The utility of the information during the flood was inadequate,” he said. After the flood, ...