Roanoke County urges residents to check preliminary FEMA flood maps before finalizing in spring. Changes could change homeowners property values and insurance needs.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flood waters from the Ohio River have closed off highway ramps to Interstate 71 for several days as local residents wait for ...

During record spring rains in Kansas, researcher helped officials get a more precise read on where floodwaters could rise. When Jude Kastens was developing a new floodplain mapping model more than a ...

Viewing flood plain data no longer requires a car ride downtown for residents and businesses in Tulsa County, Okla., thanks to the municipality's GIS Flood Map. Tulsa County CIO Tom Trimble partially ...

The Midland County GIS Department has created a map tool to highlight the county's landscape before, during and after the devastating mid-Michigan dam failures and flooding. The department says that ...

Since the 2008 flood in Iowa City, the Iowa Flood Center has worked to update the floodplain map. Professor Larry Weber of the University of Iowa IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering, said that when the ...

LAWRENCE -- When Jude Kastens was developing a new floodplain mapping model more than a decade ago as part of his doctoral dissertation at the University of Kansas, he aimed to address a critical ...