Roughly 180 Richmond homes and businesses will soon be in a high-risk flood zone, according to new FEMA flood maps for the ...

Many areas of western North Carolina affected by flooding had FEMA flood maps that were 12 to 15 ... “They really became the nations de facto flood risk communication products,” Kousky said in ...

More Accurate FEMA Flood Maps Could Help Avoid Significant Damages And Losses. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 01 / 090123111515.htm ...

FEMA updates flood maps about every five years. The report floodplain zones are areas with a 1% chance of flooding each year or a 26% chance of flooding during a 30-year mortgage life span.

The maps are available in PDF format at the FEMA Map Service Center. After selecting the state, and Orleans Parish, click on the Get Preliminary FEMA Map Products button.

FEMA's Map Modernization Program of 2003 to 2008 resulted in digital flood maps for 92 percent of the continental U.S. population, most of whom live in areas that had outdated maps or no maps at all.

Being in a floodplain can lower a home’s value, but the impact varies. In Harris County, homes in the 100-year floodplain sold for around 2.3%, or $7,300 less than similar homes outside the ...

If you're looking at the new FEMA flood map for Palm Beach County — good luck. Navigating the map is not proving to be easy for many.

Just a few hours after FEMA’s director admitted the agency doesn’t know how to map flood risk under climate change on Sunday, more flooding hit the Southeast—this time in Georgia. Here ...

it will submit its findings to fema to possibly update floodplain maps so people can better evaluate their flood risk. people protection. people need to ensure that they are protecting their property.

Scarborough is one of several local communities impacted by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood map changes going into effect this June. FEMA’s decade-long effort to remap the flood ...