What FEMA flood maps miss FEMA's maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant gaps that limit their effectiveness.

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review ...

The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many Americans have a flood risk they are not aware of.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map.

Federal regulators approved appeals to remove buildings from the 100-year flood hazard map of Camp Mystic, reducing regulatory oversight in a high-risk floodplain in Texas before torrential waters ...

That designation means an area is likely to be inundated during a 100-year flood — one severe enough that it only has a 1% chance of happening in any given year.

FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can get in the way.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp expanded.

Reports show 30 Camp Mystic structures were removed from a 100-year National Flood Insurance map repeatedly, loosening camp oversight.