Harvey’s impacts in Houston provide an ideal case study for unsustainable human-environment ... A year after Hurricane Harvey, flawed flood risk maps are setting Texans up for another disaster.

Harvey inundated rivers, bayous, canals and highways in some of the most densely populated parts of the Houston metro area, which is home to 4.5 million people.

FEMA's new maps for the Houston area will be the first in the nation to show the risk of urban flooding. ... 3 key things to know about Harris County's new flood maps, designed in response to Harvey.

HOUSTON (AP) — A study of part of southeast Houston suggests that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's flood plain maps were woefully out-of-date long before Hurricane Harvey ravaged the ...

Flood hazard maps by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, showing the 100-year floodplain, an area with a 1 percent risk for flooding in any given year, mark where homeowners are required to ...

Hurricane Harvey is expected to cause major flooding in Houston, and there are a few reasons why. At the top of the list are poor city planning and the city's location. The fingers only started ...

Most of Houston, after all, was already built by the time the first flood plain maps were published in the 1980s. Today, there are roughly 162,000 buildings in the 236 square miles of mapped flood ...

In the months after Hurricane Harvey pummeled East Texas, Houston asked itself a hard question: ... As storms leave patterns of damage that bear little resemblance to FEMA’s flood plain maps, ...

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood plain maps for parts of southeastern Houston were woefully out-of-date long before Hurricane Harvey ravaged the Texas coast, a new study suggests.