When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...

Federal regulators repeatedly removed dozens of Camp Mystic’s cabins from their 100-year flood maps — clearing the way for the camp to expand into the dangerous floodplain years before the Guadalupe ...

Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Charles River in Wellesley, where new housing is proposed. (Photo by Jordan Wolman/Commonwealth Beacon) It didn’t ...

12:22 p.m. July 14, 2025: Updated to include maps of flood risk model and FEMA 100-year flood plain Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year ...

Washoe County has updated its flood hazard information for the Swan Lake area, aligning with Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requirements. The remapping effort focuses on updating the FEMA ...

(The Conversation) – Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that ...

As we enter what we hope will be a bountiful new year, 2025 may prove to be the annus horribilis for floodplain development in Oregon. Due to recent litigation concerning FEMA’s National Flood ...

The Texas Legislature passed a requirement in its special session that children’s cabins at camps are not to be built within the floodplain. But how are floodplains determined? By a group within ...