A critical federal analysis of extreme rainfall is vastly underestimating the chances of flood events, ... Extreme floods are happening way more often than federal data would suggest, analysis shows ...

This fire-to-flood disaster was just one varietal of dozens of such disasters this year. All told, there have been at least 45 flood-related major disaster declarations this year, according to FEMA.

SAN ANTONIO – The 500-year flood — that’s what we saw back on Oct. 17, 1998. Thursday marks 26 years since the devasting weather event, which resulted in 31 deaths and $1.19 million in damage.

It found half the American population lives in a county where a 1-in-100-year flood is at least twice as likely now as it had been in the past, coming once every 50 years, on average, rather than 100.