While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

Information from the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program, which has high-accuracy topographic data and maps for nearly the entire state, allowed the committee to compare new and traditional ...

The "about face" comes after CBS4 I-Team Reporter Stephen Stock exposed inaccurate FEMA flood maps. FEMA reversed itself on who is and who is not in a flood zone, in parts of Miami-Dade and ...

Information from the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program, which has high-accuracy topographic data and maps for nearly the entire state, allowed the committee to compare new and traditional ...

FEMA Flood Maps Miss Risk ... “FEMA’s maps are notably different in their intended use and design,” and “the accuracy of the flood data necessary for making decisions regarding ...

Significant loss of life, destroyed property and businesses, and repairs to infrastructure could be avoided by replacing Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps with ones that contain high ...

Multiple lawmakers on the Indiana Drainage Task Force expressed concerns on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, about the accuracy of the state’s floodplain maps and said they now support a more robust ...

New maps estimate a 100-year flood could put Lakewood’s section of Interstate 5 under three feet of water and submerge some neighborhoods. The City of Lakewood published a new floodplain map ...

If maps are updated, as in Wells County, banks are required by federal law to notify property owners that they are now in a floodplain zone and are required to have floodplain insurance, Teare added.