Galveston Bay and Houston areas are no strangers to flooding. Floodwaters from any number of sources often bring massive threats to life, infrastructure and property. They can also carry hidden ...

Climate extreme events such as floods and droughts in any area have a significant impact on human life, infrastructure, agriculture, and the economy. In the last two years, flash floods caused by ...

Floods threaten urban infrastructure, especially in residential neighborhoods and fast-growing regions. Flood hydrodynamic modeling helps identify flood-prone locations and improve mitigation plans' ...

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 ...

Williamson County officials have approved a major update to how flood risks are identified and managed, adopting the Atlas 14 Floodplain Mapping Study during a Commissioners Court meeting on Tuesday.

Choosing the best GIS software can define how efficiently you handle mapping, spatial analysis, and geospatial data. In this guide, we summarize how each geographic information system software ...

Flood risk maps are an essential public good. Indeed, many countries like the United Kingdom already offer flood risk mapping. Canada committed to a public flood risk mapping portal in the 2023 budget ...

Crews work on the Cade Loop Bridge in Ingram, Texas to clear debris after flooding along the Guadalupe River July 10 . Overdevelopment in flood-prone areas and inadequate mapping by the Federal ...

The following information was released by the office of Montana Rep. Troy Downing: Today, Congressman Troy Downing (MT-02) introduced the bipartisan Improvement of Mapping, Addresses, Geography, ...

The river landing at Shanklin Park in Goshen was largely covered with water Sunday, March 5 as the threat of flooding along the Elkhart River continued at that time. This section of Goshen is in a ...

Federal efforts to map parts of the country facing the highest risk of flooding are not on track to finish by the 2028 target date and don’t account for the effects of climate change, Canada’s ...