While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...

FEMA is anticipated to open a 90-day public appeal and comment period in the winter where property owners can formally ...

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...

The deadly Texas floods have raised questions about U.S. flood maps and their ability to ensure communities can prepare for ...

There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.

The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities, according to an ABC ...

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

Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...

FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program, which insures $1.25 trillion in assets, relies on these maps to assess risk, set premiums and determine who is required to purchase flood insurance.

Local flood maps in Hitchcock, Texas haven't been updated since 1983. And Hitchcock is no anomaly.

The FEMA flood risk maps do not consider clogged culverts or bridges as the recovery maps did. They also do not consider a burned watershed, which would create higher peak flows, Griffin said.