Sept. 3 (UPI) --The National Weather Service announced Wednesday it has expanded its real-time flood mapping tool to cover about 60% of the U.S. population, double its coverage from a year ago. The ...

People living in central North Carolina now have expanded tools to help them better understand where flooding might happen in their area. The National Weather Service’s [NWS] experimental service is ...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Storm Water Services has contracted engineering firm Woolpert to develop a flood forecast system using machine learning. The algorithms will use precipitation predictions to ...

The City and Borough of Juneau released updated flood inundation maps on Thursday that show barriers being installed along the Mendenhall River should protect neighborhoods even at an 18-foot flood ...

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For Jude Kastens, who grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas, rainfall was always serious business. Although flooding wasn't as big a problem in his hometown as in central and eastern Kansas, it was ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property owners, according to Lisa Nicholas. The ...