Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation's ...

While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community input, the maps still don't capture everything.

High humidity levels, summer heat and long days will combine to produce conditions favorable for drenching thunderstorms ...

This sort of flash flooding might just be the new normal, if you can use such a term to describe the phase we’re experiencing ...

Even in areas that are mapped, like the Camp Mystic site in Kerr County, Texas, that was hit by a deadly flash flood on July ...

In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand their flood risk and take appropriate ...

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...