Many areas of western North Carolina affected by flooding ... Experts have long warned that FEMA’s flood maps may be lagging ...

As climate patterns shift, the gaps in current flood risk maps leave many homeowners facing uncertainty. Without updated tools and resources, residents in areas like western North Carolina may ...

The risk is spread throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, northern Georgia and extreme western portions of North ...

Only about 2% of residences in the 100 counties hit hardest by Hurricane Helene-related power outages were protected by flood insurance, according to an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data ...

Duke Ph.D. student Aljouhra AlHargan pointed to a simulated map of homes and businesses that could get flooded if a storm dumped more than a foot of rain on the tiny flood-prone town of Creswell, in ...

The nonprofit climate research group used federal elevation and population data to map the land ... that risk zone for the 100-year flood in 2050.” North Carolina ranks in the top 10 states ...

At least eight active wildfires are burning across both states on Monday, some of which have prompted evacuations.

Here are maps illustrating the current situation. Officials listed 81 wildfires in North Carolina as of Thursday morning, totaling more than 1,500 acres. This was down from more than 200 blazes at ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current ... A map showing wildfires in South Carolina. A map showing wildfires in South Carolina. fireweatheravalanche.org In North ...

Scores of wildfires broke out across North Carolina, South Carolina ... from a flash drought over the summer to extreme hurricane flooding in September, and then back to drought again.