When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...

The Misleading Name That Confuses Millions The term "100-year flood" sounds like a once-in-a-century event, doesn't it?

This story originally appeared on Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There is a lot of water in southern Louisiana right now. The region's been lashed with rain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery's childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images ...

Water was higher than the predicted 0.2% chance flood hazard, according to data. The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 ...

ATLANTA — For most metro Atlanta residents, Hurricane Helene was a temporary inconvenience last September. But in pockets of Georgia, it was a destructive storm that brought flooding, forcing families ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up. By Claire Brown On the heels of devastating flooding in Texas that killed more ...

A new study finds that many homeowners face a higher flood risk than they expect. It’s a prospect that raises questions about the accuracy of government flood maps that determine insurance coverage, ...

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 communities and homeowners can ...

(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 ...