Soaring home insurance costs, fueled by climate change, are halting real estate deals as buyers face sticker shock and ...

Investors are betting extreme weather will rewrite the rules of real estate. Here’s what that means for your home.

FEMA has updated its flood maps, and more properties are in zones that require insurance. Property owners can get answers in Jupiter.

Corey Rabeaux knows his house is always at risk of flooding. The federal government, which manages the National Flood Insurance Program, joined Lafayette Parish in offering Rabeaux a free home ...

An armed North Carolina man was arrested after it was reported that he had made comments about “possibly harming FEMA employees” involved in hurricane relief efforts in the state, authorities ...

As climate change makes extreme weather more common, flood risk is growing all over the country. Still, not enough people ...

Many of FEMA’s flood zone maps haven’t been updated in years, and even those that have been rely on historical storm data and don’t take into account how climate change and an atmosphere ...

FEMA-produced flood maps, officially known as Flood Insurance Rate Maps, are the most well-known guide to flood risk in the United States. The maps rate everywhere in the country on a spectrum from ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is responsible for creating flood zone maps that show the likelihood that an area will flood. These flood insurance maps help determine how much NFIP ...

A surge in U.S. flood disasters A bar chart showing the total number of FEMA flood disasters declared ... as builders do in the Outer Banks or coastal Louisiana. It also means raising roads ...

The proposed legislation, called the Flood ... from Louisiana, to reconvene the chamber to approve emergency disaster funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small ...

If you look at a flood map, these areas will be zones that begin with “A” or “V.” FEMA has created a flood map of high-risk flood areas. To determine if you’re in an area prone to ...