On Monday morning, people in Florida living and staying along Florida’s Gulf Coast and in the Big Bend region woke up to a Category 1 hurricane at their door. Here’s the difference between a flood and ...

It used to be that moving to higher ground or buying a home further inland provided safeguards against flooding and higher insurance rates. But as federal flood maps in the U.S. evolve and expand to ...

The American neighborhoods with the highest risk of floods are again losing residents. For the first time since 2019, high-risk counties lost domestic residents, with 30,000 more people relocating to ...

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The National Weather Service uses several types of alerts to notify the public about potentially dangerous flooding ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe counties are under a flood watch from Sunday to Thursday, as a disturbance was over South Florida ahead of Hurricane Milton’s Florida Gulf Coast ...

Flood insurance is a tenet of life in water-burdened Louisiana. The low-lying portions of the state face rising water from the disappearing coast and more frequent heavy rainfall from hurricanes and ...

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On Wednesday at 8:23 p.m. the National Weather Service issued a flood advisory in effect until 9:45 p.m. The advisory is for Citrus, Hernando and Sumter counties. Locations impacted by the advisory ...