When a 100-year flood hits a city, traffic doesn't suddenly stop or disappear—it adapts. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

In this episode of Today in Tech, host Keith Shaw speaks with Marc Prioleau, executive director of the Overture Maps ...

FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can get in the way.

FEMA’s maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

There are areas of the country that flood, some regularly, that don’t show up on the maps as at risk.

The federal government allowed Camp Mystic, the all-girls summer camp along the Guadalupe River, to remove multiple buildings ...

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate steps to prepare and mitigate potential losses. But there are areas of the ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in ...

In response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013 amended the county’s flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in ...