About 75% of the nation’s flood insurance maps are outdated, leaving the door open for property owners to seek their own ...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

The sensors, which are being deployed over the next 18 months, use sonar technology to detect when water levels rise and ...

North Port is developing a new floodplain management plan. It helps the city deal with hazards that could make flooding worse ...

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Before the flood, floodplain maps were extremely outdated, said Witold Krajewski, the Flood Center director.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, ...

Many areas of western North Carolina affected by flooding had FEMA flood maps that were 12 to 15 years old, according to Anna Weber, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council.