The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Judy Higbee thought if she bought flood insurance before the flood maps change, she could lock in her ...

It’s a call that Shari Mendrick, the town of Hilton Head’s floodplain manager, gets almost every day: A Hilton Head resident wants to know if they should drop their flood insurance. The town adopted ...

When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to ...

FEMA’s updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps for Sarasota County took effect March 27, 2024, replacing 2016 versions and changing flood risk zones for many properties. The updates, based on new coastal ...

Engineers at the University of Houston have unlocked decades of hidden flood risk data, using artificial intelligence to ...

SHAMOKIN — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved Shamokin's revised flood insurance map prepared by an engineering firm, Betsy Kramer, SEDA-COG program manager for community ...

(The Conversation) – 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 ...

Nearly 200,000 properties could be moved into high-risk flood zones under the FEMA's overhaul of Harris County's flood maps.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fairfield County residents and property owners will have an opportunity to view the newly revised digital preliminary flood insurance rate maps for the county and learn how the risk ...