Florida has introduced an advanced GIS-based flood risk mapping tool that integrates rainfall, elevation, land use, and social vulnerability data to identify high-risk areas. The platform, supported ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flood waters from the Ohio River have closed off highway ramps to Interstate 71 for several days as local residents wait for ...

Millions of Americans just woke up in a flood zone that had never before been listed on U.S. government maps. The first-ever public evaluation of flood risk for every property in the 48 contiguous ...

Since the 2008 flood in Iowa City, the Iowa Flood Center has worked to update the floodplain map. Professor Larry Weber of the University of Iowa IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering, said that when the ...

The Midland County GIS Department has created a map tool to highlight the county's landscape before, during and after the devastating mid-Michigan dam failures and flooding. The department says that ...

Recently completed study of 16-kilometre section of Burnt River by Kawartha Conservation shows roughly 125 properties could ...