Harris County offers an interactive flood map to help homebuyers assess flood risks. HOUSTON — As the Bayou City dries out ...

Texas has some of the country's strongest ... 2, 2017, in Houston. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle FEMA flood maps have long served as the official guide for assessing flood risk in the United ...

Still, a new study by Rice University and Texas ... FEMA's hazard mapping may be even less accurate than most people think. Researchers examined flood damage claims from several southeast Houston ...

The county is responsible for developing the flood-risk data and modeling, though ultimately, "the floodplain maps sit with FEMA ... Ward is the Houston Chronicle's climate & environment reporter.

The FEMA flood maps are the primary ... days before Harvey struck Houston causing devastating flooding throughout the city and many other cities across coastal Texas and Louisiana.

Texas National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston to aid residents in heavily ... two-year effort to create a new type of floodplain map. Sam Brody, the project’s principal investigator and ...

Graphic of Texas shows the updated rainfall values ... and help people understand that these new maps may show them in a floodplain when they've never been mapped in an effective floodplain ...

The study looked at five floods in the Houston area between 1999 and 2009. Houston flood plain maps failed to predict ... A 100-year floodplain isn't an area that floods every 100 years ...

The map shows rainfall forecast for the Galveston, Texas, area as of 3:01 a.m. CST, Thursday January 23, 2020. The map shows rainfall forecast for the Galveston, Texas, area as of 3:01 a.m. CST ...

LA PORTE, Texas (KTRK) -- FEMA's floodplain maps, which are the government's ... a 60-square-mile area which includes portions of Houston, Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte and Taylor Lake Village.

New preliminary floodplain maps that will be used to set flood insurance ... at a national severe weather symposium being held in Houston. Grounds' firm, Brown & Gay Engineering, has been ...