If federal streamgages were bolstered by networks of cheaper monitors run by communities, the results could save lives.

These maps use a National Water Model ... hydrologist James LaRosa showed an example of how this helped in issuing a Flood Advisory for Fentress County last summer. “There’s a creek that ...

FEMA says a quarter of all insurance claims for flood damage occur outside the 100-year floodplain — even though homeowners ...