Hundreds of acres of roofs and parking lots will prevent the land from soaking up rainwater, writes hydrology professor. DEIS ...

By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.

This sort of flash flooding might just be the new normal, if you can use such a term to describe the phase we’re experiencing ...

A sprawling area storms churning toward the Gulf Coast threatens to bring significant rain and flash flooding this week to a large swath of the southeast, from the Florida panhandle to Louisiana and ...

In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong ...

Clear-cutting can make catastrophic floods 18 times more frequent with effects lasting more than 40 years, according to a new UBC study.

The Trump administration has paused work on a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of the ...

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha sued the Trump administration on July 16 to stop the termination of a multibillion-dollar grant program aimed at protecting communities against natural ...

Following major flooding in Texas, New York and New Jersey, several Democratic states are suing to recoup the federal grants ...

FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...

The State Flood Plan, published last year, identified $54 billion in flood mitigation, warning and data needs. The state has ...