CLIMATEWIRE | Many new hospitals, schools, apartment buildings and other structures would be built with extra flood protection under a major revision to an international building code approved Friday.

PANAMA CITY — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has revised and reissued its Flood Insurance Study for Bay County. The new flood zone map pushes flooding threats further inland from the ...

Under the rule, rebuilt structures could be required to be elevated above the expected height of a future flood or be relocated to a safer location The Federal Emergency Management Agency has ...

Flood zone information should be reviewed early in the planning process because it can affect nearly every major ...

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...

With the 2026 hurricane season approaching, Florida faces a convergence of rising flood risks, shifting FEMA maps, evolving building codes, and insurance market changes. Updated flood zone ...

Shirley Howard’s Chicago neighborhood has flooded three times in the last 30 years. But Howard’s mortgage lender never suggested flood insurance. The government says she doesn’t need it. “That is what ...