Flooding is Kentucky's most frequent and costly natural disaster. Sometimes you'll hear the phrase "100-year flood." But what ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently answered some frequently asked questions in a press release: Q: What does a “100-year flood” mean? A: The term “100-year flood” is often used as an ...

Due to the low temperatures, large areas of the flood waters froze, destroying many cars and leaving owners without easy transportation ...

Most years it’s the number one natural disaster in the US by dollars of damage. So being able to characterize flood risks is a crucial job of civil engineers. Engineering hydrology has equal ...

Eight years ago this week, after a series of drenching atmospheric river storms, Coyote Creek, the longest creek in Santa ...

GRAFTON, N.D. – The Grafton Flood Risk Reduction Project, a project to divert the Park River and stop overland flooding, has officially removed Grafton from the 100-year floodplain. On Jan. 19 ...

Lee County is currently experiencing several inches of snow, complicating efforts to recover from flooding that occurred this ...

La Crosse’s record daily rainfall on Saturday highlights a problem that is no longer a once in a hundred-year phenomenon. Flood mitigation is an old conversation. Just step into the La Crosse ...

Below you’ll find what's expected to be inundated in a 100-year flood, which has a 1-percent chance of occurring in a year, and a 500-year flood, which has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in a ...

A: The term “100-year flood” is often used as an attempt to simplify the definition of a flood that statistically has a 1-percent chance of occurring in any given year. Likewise, the ...