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Residents infuriated after redrawn maps increase insurance uncertainty: 'We kind of had to change some of our logistics'

"We kind of had to change some of our logistics, to try to have a couple of insurance reps there to be able to answer ...
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Indiana task force debates floodplain mapping — and how it’s affecting Hoosier property owners

Multiple lawmakers on the Indiana Drainage Task Force expressed concerns on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, about the accuracy of the state’s floodplain maps and said they now support a more robust system ...
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FEMA's flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks

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 ...
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Flood risk mapping is a public good, so why the public resistance in Canada? Lessons from Nova Scotia

Kate Sherren or her trainees received funding for this work from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and the Nova Scotia ...
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Indiana task force debates floodplain mapping – and how it’s affecting Hoosier property owners

Are enough Hoosiers up to date on statewide floodplain mapping? How are landowners being notified about changes to those maps? And should property owners have more say, overall, in what areas are ...