The heaviest rain since Ghana began keeping records fell in June 2026 on a city that has drowned in the same streets for sixty-six years.

The 2,175-mile system of interconnected, man-made canals crisscrossing Florida, from Orlando to the Keys, has a particularly important role when a hurricane happens to be pinwheeling toward the ...

Nearly three months after hurricanes Helene and Milton delivered record flood and storm surge levels to cities in Florida, the state has accepted a public loss model that FIU helped design to assess ...

Flood inundation models are tools that predict where water flows, how deep it gets, how fast it moves and how long it remains during a flood event. But despite recent advances in flood inundation ...

JBA Risk Management, a UK-based flood science specialist, has extensively updated its Global Flood Model, enhancing it with updated hazard maps, an extended range of future climate event sets, while ...

Before rain begins to fall, scientists and engineers can predict where a storm might cause flooding thanks to advanced modeling and digital simulations that help guide billion-dollar decisions ...

Electric utilities are under increasing pressure to mitigate wildfire risk and respond to extreme weather, and not just in places where one might typically expect such hazards. Service territories ...

The City Council last week authorized the city manager to execute a contract with BKF Engineers to provide floodplain modeling for Avalon. The maximum cost will be $30,000. The vote was 3-0. Mayor ...

For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to shrink the government’s role. By Scott Dance Reporting from Washington Flood ...