The changes are to make the maps easier to understand and more precise.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deadly flash flood on July 4, 2025, swept through Nancy Callery's childhood home in Hunt, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images ...

Courtesy of Jessica Payne via Washington Department of Natural Resources Fire officials with the Washington Department of Natural Resources recently held their first public meeting about a project to ...

On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

Risk maps for the cancer-causing gas radon can encourage people to test their homes for the substance, but only if homeowners live in known, higher-risk areas, new University of Oregon research finds.

Jeff Shapiro strolls his lakeside property along scenic Lake Austin, pointing out the ways he has fireproofed his limestone home. Within the 5-foot "home ignition zone," there's nothing that can burn ...

Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — On Tuesday, March 3, the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center made updates to its severe ...

Jeremy Porter has nothing to disclose. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ...