Even a small amount of water inside a home can cause costly damage. Here’s how to assess your flood risk and what to do if ...

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

If your home is in an area that’s considered low risk for flooding, for instance, the map will likely spell that out with an “Area of Minimal Flood Hazard” notation across the geographic area.

The newly mapped areas are cross-hatched in green under a section named "preliminary flood hazard areas." Users can find these new areas by opening the legend, scrolling down and making sure the ...

An astounding 8,000 structures in Harris County have been elevated to the "special flood hazard area" in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's newly released flood-risk map. That means Harris ...

According to a new flood hazard map by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thousands of homes in Honolulu now fall within a flood zone. "There are approximately 172,000 parcels on Oahu.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — According to a new flood hazard map by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thousands of homes in Honolulu now fall within a flood zone. It’s a designation that could ...

Most of the new affected areas in Panama City fall within an "X500" zone. FEMA says this means these areas have a moderate flood hazard. These areas are between the limits of the base flood and ...

The higher base flood elevation also affects major renovation projects through FEMA’s "50% rule," a policy that requires projects in a special flood hazard area to employ the most recent flood ...

RICHMOND, Va. — If you own a home or business in Richmond, it may have been added to this Special Flood Hazard Area map, recently shared by the Department of Public Utilities.. It shows homes ...

Clay Township Supervisor Artie Bryson said a little more than 1,200 structures are being removed from the special flood hazard areas — meaning, fewer properties where residents would have to pay ...

Other notable expansions in the flood hazard map take place around the old airport and the SweetBay development, with much of the area now falling in the "X500" zone.