Sarah Labowitz is a senior fellow in the Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The recent flash floods in central Texas impacted thousands of homes and laid bare the challenges facing local homeowners, ...

“Communities should conduct an after-action review, ensure they have warning systems in place, test them and communicate with ...

The groups also want lawmakers to examine land-use practices and consider ways to protect natural resources, which they say ...

The NJDEP revealed updates to its proposed Resilient Environments and Landscapes – or REAL – flood rules in response to mass ...

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NOAA is testing a new storm surge warning system that provides precise geographic alerts to reduce unnecessary evacuations.

The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if they live in a designated flood zone. The tool can also be used to explore ...

Camp Mystic and others hit by deadly floods were built partly in ‘extremely hazardous’ flood zones Search flood risk in Kerr and Kendall counties with our map.

Wireless Emergency Alerts are limited to flash flood warnings when there is a "threat tag" of considerable or catastrophic.

FEMA has a little over a dozen flood zone classifications based on the estimated frequency of storms that could cause flooding in an area. High-risk zones are known as a Special Flood Hazard Area ...