Sometimes you'll hear the phrase "100-year flood." Here's how meteorologists define that term and how to see if you live in a flood plain.

FEMA now treats Great Lakes as freshwater seas by JACKSON PARR, climate hazards planning educator, University of ...

Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management regulations at 6 p.m.

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash rains so unusual they are described as 100 ... year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme a flood ...

landowners and developers have been applying in record numbers to have the federal government redraw the 100-year floodplain map to exclude their properties. So far in 2003, 61 properties that ...

No matter what, more affected homes and businesses will still need to buy flood plain insurance once the Federal Emergency ...

The map added about 650 residential properties ... are required to purchase flood insurance for properties in the 100-year flood zone. “The bulk of the law lays out the duties of the floodplain ...