In contrast, Kabul, Quetta, Port Moresby, Dili, Mogadishu, Khartoum, Goma, Port-au-Prince, Caracas, and Guatemala City are categorized as Least Safe Cities, heavily affected by unrest, militant ...

Missoula County is set to significantly update its floodplain map for the first time in 50 years. Hundreds of property owners ...

Limited funding has made it hard for states to keep their wildfire risk maps up to date, even as global warming increases the danger. For years, Colorado’s wildfire risk map was so inaccurate that ...

Connecticut residents can now use a free risk-mapping tool to see if their property is in danger of certain natural disasters. Connecticut is the first state to make the tool available for all of its ...

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 ...

Redder areas show regions that are more likely to have wildfires. Other components of the wildfire risk show where there is the greatest risk to homes, where mitigation efforts might ber most ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency has started soliciting information on potential vendors that could provide operations and maintenance, requirements gathering ...

Nearly 52,500 homes in Travis County sit in communities with limited escape routes, according to an American-Statesman analysis of city data.

Logan residents have until the end of this week to lodge concerns over the city’s new draft flood mapping, amid warnings it ...

The Texas summer camp where dozens of girls died in July 4th flash flooding is located in the middle of a well-studied, high-risk flood zone, according to mapping data from the Federal Emergency ...