Before buying a house in a flood zone, it’s important to know the risks and costs involved — especially with the increase in ...

An example of a scenario would be a $300,000 home with $150,000 damage built in a high-risk flood zone. Officials say that home would have to be demolished or rebuilt. If it was rebuilt ...

Traditional methods of communicating how likely an area is to flood focus on designating which zones are 'high risk.' This study suggests that this framing may give developers and homeowners a ...

“Before Thursday was over, I was being evacuated by the Florida National Guard,” Sherri Allen said. Lakeland residents without mail service for three months Sherri’s Forest Hills home was in flood ...

Quebec’s current flood maps designate two risk zones for river and coastal areas — flooding is expected either within 20 years or somewhere between 20 and 100 years. Under the new system ...

Yet, as highlighted in recent studies comparing flood risk models developed by the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and First Street Foundation, the disparities between these models can hav ...

Construction costs in Midtown likely will jump now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated its flood zone maps, raising the required ground elevations for future construction.

While we were merrily distracted, tens of thousands of Florida homeowners received letters bumping them into high-risk flood zones. It's like your house sank overnight, only it didn't – it's ...