After three years of study, public meetings and community engagement, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is introducing updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps for public view in eight flood-prone ...

WASHINGTON, May 25-- The Library of Congress issued the following news: The Library of Congress has placed online nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of ...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have released revised ...

In the mid-1800s, the fledgling U.S. insurance industry began commissioning mapmakers to produce specialized maps to assess fire risks in urban areas. Many of these historic fire insurance maps have ...

PLUM ISLAND — Many landowners along the local coast and waterways are being hit by a dramatic increase in flood insurance costs, an issue that has been made harder by a lack of information about how ...

New flood insurance maps for New Orleans, expected to be made final Wednesday (March 30) by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, promise dramatically lower premiums for many property owners within ...

The city and state are assisting the Federal Emergency Management Agency in alerting property owners and communities that it has updated its flood maps once again. Since 2019, FEMA has studied flood ...

A decade-long effort to re-map Galveston County will change flood insurance rates for some residents when the maps go into effect in August. FEMA is encouraging residents to check the new maps, or ...

Interactive map from Karen Davenport and Sonia Sekhar shows that one carrier dominates the market in 17 states, and two dominate in 22 more. The interactive on this page uses a deprecated technology ...