Historically, flooding is one of the costliest natural disasters in the United States on an annual basis. Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) attempt to address area-wide flood risks retroactively and ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Many new hospitals, schools, apartment buildings and other structures would be built with extra flood protection under a major revision to an international building code approved Friday.

beckley – People who live in flood-hazard areas and had damage to their homes during the Feb. 15 – 18, 2025, winter flooding in Logan, Mercer, McDowell, Mingo, Raleigh, Wayne, and Wyoming counties are ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's been said that building your home in a 100-year floodplain is like setting up your tent in ...

For the past 25 years, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped develop building codes, the construction standards that help houses survive hurricanes, wildfires and earthquakes. Now, ...

Since 2017's Hurricane Harvey, one in five new homes built across the Houston region has been built in the floodplains, according to a Houston Chronicle's property records analysis. Experts say this ...