On the chopping block: Money to build a safe room for first responders during a hurricane in Key West, new drainage for a soggy section of 8th Street in Miami’s Little Havana and a flood-prone ...

The money would have paid to elevate roads, shore up canals and fix water treatment systems from Jacksonville to Miami-Dade ...

The deadline to apply for Elevate Florida,.a program to help pay for projects to protect your home from flooding, ends Friday ...

A crew member works to dry the court as a rain delay postpones the Miami Open tennis tournament on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Photo by Matias J. Ocner ...

Insurance issues are not likely to ease for Hamers and others in his neighborhood considering new Fire Hazard Severity Maps that continue to place Hamers' neighborhood north of Benton Drive in a zone ...

Cal Fire explains these maps function similarly to flood zone maps, "where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being inundated by floodwaters, and not ...

The newly released Cal Fire 2025 Recommended Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps show the Santa Clarita Valley has increased in areas deemed to be Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The maps are ...

Though prior versions had distinguished between “moderate,” “high” and “very high” hazard zones in areas under CalFire’s remit, the maps only showed the most dangerous bits of the ...

With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps on Monday morning, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much ...