Land along the Congaree River untouched for over a century is now being considered for a “world-class” park, but the site is prone to floods and some worry the plans will damage the riverfront.

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

Floods have long been a concern for many communities across the United States. With climate change intensifying weather ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions." ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

An interactive flood map ... the warning zone stretching as far inland as Lewisham Station. Meanwhile, Greenwich Peninsula is particularly vulnerable, with the NASA climate map highlighting ...

Prorock said the road project is just one identified in a study the city of Charleston did in 2020 on the Central Park drainage basin, a flood-prone area. He said the city and county are both ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than ...

“Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps evaluate ‘hazard,’ not ‘risk’,” the fire marshal’s office said. “They are like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms of the ...

Cal Fire has released maps identifying the level of fire hazard severity that cities across eight Southern California counties face as part of efforts to prepare for and prevent wildfires.