Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood ...

This story originally appeared on Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a lot of water in southern Louisiana right now. The region's been lashed with rain ...

ATLANTA — For most metro Atlanta residents, Hurricane Helene was a temporary inconvenience last September. But in pockets of Georgia, it was a destructive storm that brought flooding, forcing families ...

A new study finds that many homeowners face a higher flood risk than they expect. It’s a prospect that raises questions about the accuracy of government flood maps that determine insurance coverage, ...

FEMA’s mapping alongside Cypress Creek, where the camp expanded in 2018, is 15 years old and represents a rough estimate of flood risk. It relies on imprecise topography maps, and the rainfall data it ...