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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 ...

When Camp Mystic wanted to build in Central Texas areas considered high risk on Federal Emergency Management Agency flood insurance maps, it did what many property owners do: It hired engineers to ...

An Oregon bill that would eliminate a controversial wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday after unanimously passing the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Senate Bill 83 ...

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 ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire, released new draft maps this week showing fire hazards in cities across California's Bay Area and the state's northern coast as ...

In the wake of deadly flash floods in Central Texas, many people are wondering what they can do to protect themselves from flooding where they live. It's a good question, and one that is relevant to ...

After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that ...

Lea el artículo en español aquí. A new wildfire-risk map from NASA and a Bay Area fire-protection nonprofit organization shows where the threat of ember-driven wildfires is the highest in the North ...