What Happens When Flood Maps Don’t Illustrate True Risk

Reduce Flooding — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:29:48 +0000

3/25/25 – Eight years after Hurricane Harvey and a massive region-wide effort to update flood maps, FEMA still features maps on its website based on decades-old data that don’t come close to showing true flood risk. The old maps cause confusion among buyers who may not understand their limitations. And that helps developers pursue and […]

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What Happens When Flood Maps Don’t Illustrate True Risk