Hurricane Harvey damaged more than 204,000 homes and apartment buildings in Harris County, almost three-quarters of them outside the federally regulated 100-year flood plain, leaving tens of ...

As the government begins to assess the damage from Hurricane Harvey, it is clear that ... the boundaries drawn on official flood maps. Harris County Lake Houston Sheldon Reservoir Addicks ...

As floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey recede in Houston ... is that some of the damage — financial, physical, emotional — could have been avoided. Flood hazard maps by the Federal Emergency ...

A recent study found that FEMA failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages within their flood maps between 1999 and 2009. The FEMA flood maps are the primary source for how the government and ...

Researchers examined flood damage claims from several southeast Houston ... maps failed to show 75 percent of flood damage. "The takeaway from this study, which was borne out in Harvey, is that ...

HOUSTON - Harvey wasn ... of homes damaged in certain communities, those aren’t even the worst. You see in Houston, Kashmere Gardens had almost 79 percent of its homes flood.

Hurricane Harvey pummeled east Texas for days, inundating Houston and leaving $125 billion of damage in its wake ... that will mitigate the risk of flooding," Turner said. Houston architect ...

In Houston alone ... Standard homeowners policies don't cover flood damage, and much of the area by Hurricane Harvey slammed falls outside of the designated zones that require homeowners to ...

Flood maps show that more than 25 percent ... had three 500-year flood events since 2015. Many of the Houston area homes damaged during Harvey were not in designated flood plains.

Stephen Costello, the city's chief resilience officer, expects to play a big role in how Houston spends it Hurricane Harvey recovery ... to help prevent more damage from flooding.

As Houston-area students return to school after catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey, many schools were damaged to the point of needing intensive repairs. Houston ISD announced ...

Houston’s population is growing quickly, but when Harvey hit last weekend there were far fewer homes and other properties in the area with flood insurance than just five years ago, according to ...