Flood inundation mapping and risk assessment constitute an essential framework for understanding, predicting and managing the spatial extent of floodwaters and associated hazards. These activities ...

Official flood maps shape disaster preparedness, insurance decisions and urban planning, but large parts of the United States ...

According to a news release by the United Nations University, UN University-led experts have debuted a new tool that generates instant, accurate street-level resolution maps of floods worldwide since ...

Open house meetings for affected residents are scheduled in the coming months.

An assessment of the remote sensing technologies available for floodplain mapping must be viewed in the context of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Map Modernization process. This ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

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 ...

Plus, 15 million doses of the vaccine have been trashed, Americans are going to national parks in record numbers, and more. Emily Francois walks through floodwaters beside her flood damaged home in ...

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 ...

Flood risk maps are an essential public good. Indeed, many countries like the United Kingdom already offer flood risk mapping. Canada committed to a public flood risk mapping portal in the 2023 budget ...

A 2019 floodplain mapping study predicted about 180 properties within the Walker Creek and Beamer Creek watersheds would be ...