Flood zone

There are several things that you should know when it comes to flood zones in Miami. If you are in a flood zone, it's important that you take some steps to lower your risk of getting flooded. This includes buying insurance, lowering the level of your flood risk, and reducing the impact of storms on your area.

Wilmington's coastal location means home buyers need to be knowledgeable about flood zones and flood maps. Here are 6 things you should know.

A report says the Trump administration plans to roll out a plan that would redefine how risk is calculated under the National Flood Insurance Program.

This is one of the first questions homeowners ask — or should ask — when they are shopping for insurance for their home: “Does homeowners insurance cover water damage?” The answer they are given is “it depends,” and such is the way with understanding what homeowners insurance covers and what it does not. Read this...

Update, 7:15 p.m. Sunday

Elevated house plans for flood zones should still be elegant. Babb Custom has built luxury homes in the Carolinas since 1984.

As of late I have turned into a NPR-a-holic! I just can’t get enough of their reports of politics and the environment. On my drive home last night I listened to a great concept that is comi…

All of that water pouring out of spillways and topping levees up and down the Mississippi River has to go somewhere, and many living in those areas prone to flooding have taken drastic action to keep from being inundated. In what could be called a testament to the human instinct to protect hearth and home, some in the disaster zone are holding out by taking civil engineering into their own hands, building makeshift levees to keep the rising waters at bay. Click through the gallery to see how…

All of that water pouring out of spillways and topping levees up and down the Mississippi River has to go somewhere, and many living in those areas prone to flooding have taken drastic action to keep from being inundated. In what could be called a testament to the human instinct to protect hearth and home, some in the disaster zone are holding out by taking civil engineering into their own hands, building makeshift levees to keep the rising waters at bay. Click through the gallery to see how…

Do you know if your house or the one you're going to buy is in a flood zone? Here's what to know if it is.