Auckland Council has launched an online tool to identify flood-risk properties by address. The tool aims to warn prospective buyers of flood zones and coastal erosion risks. Some homeowners are ...

With a background in journalism and counseling, Penny Min blends analytical research with real-world insight to help readers make informed financial decisions. At Forbes Marketplace, she specializes ...

When dams or levees fail, the consequences can be catastrophic, making proper funding and maintenance critical, but it doesn't always happen. They are not what I would call politically sexy. It's not ...

Dangerous flooding has damaged neighborhoods in almost every state in 2025, leaving homes a muddy mess. In several hard-hit ...

The Hearst Television Data team analyzed FEMA's flood hazard data, identifying Camp Mystic, Camp La Junta and Camp Waldemar as being near high-risk flood zones. The Hearst Television Data team ...

The revised flood maps, which are part of the draft Logan Plan, incorporate scenarios such as a one-in-2000 annual chance flood event and a Probable Maximum Flood (PMF), in line with State Planning ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A proposed Pennsylvania law could soon make it easier for homebuyers to learn whether the property they’re eyeing is at risk of flooding. House Bill 1704, known as the Flood Risk ...

The Philippines ranked first out of 193 countries in the 2025 World Risk Index on vulnerability to flooding, the Forest Foundation Philippines told a joint House panel on Tuesday.

Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. In theory, the maps enable homeowners, businesses and local officials to understand ...

A truck barrels through flooded Old Bridge Drive on Aug. 6, 2024, at The Farm in Bluffton, S.C. after Tropical Storm Debby came through the overnight hours. Drew Martin [email protected] It’s a ...

Nearly all of the moves also end in safer homes with minimal to minor risk of future flooding. We checked using address-level flood factors from the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit source of ...