As insurance costs have increased, representatives from the N.C. Department of Insurance and statewide flood organizations encouraged higher standards and suggested possible incentives for flood ...

Severe weather alerts were issued Thursday for several North Carolina counties due to storms. Severe thunderstorm and flash ...

Front Street in Beaufort is one of several roads in coastal North Carolina that flood more frequently than weather forecasts predict, a pair of researchers found. The street is shown here in ...

Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded by climate-amplified storms, threatening ...

At 6:10 p.m. on Monday, the NWS Wakefield VA released a flood advisory in effect until 9:15 p.m. The advisory is for Chowan, ...

Property owners may also have a difficult time understanding whether their home is in a floodplain or what flood insurance covers, Sherrard said. Maps indicating properties that could experience a ...

But in Buncombe County, WNC's urban center, data indicates few were enrolled in federal flood insurance. In 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau data reflected there were 137,123 households in Buncombe ...

Front Street in Beaufort is one of several roads in coastal North Carolina that flood more frequently than weather forecasts predict, a pair of researchers found. The street is shown here in ...

Thunderstorms were moving across North Carolina on Thursday, and were dropping heavy rain in some areas. Flash flood and ...

In North Carolina, sea level is expected to rise by as much as 22 inches on the Outer Banks by 2050, according to the Fifth National Climate Assessment. Advertisement ...

Property owners may also have a difficult time understanding whether their home is in a floodplain or what flood insurance covers, Sherrard said. Maps ... flood insurance. In 2020, North Carolina ...

For forest hydrologist Nicolas Zegre of West Virginia University, traditional flood models and risk maps, while useful, often fall short of capturing the full picture. The real knowledge, he says, ...