In western North Carolina, the gaps in FEMA’s flood zones are even more pronounced. About 2,100 properties were in FEMA’s flood zone in Buncombe County compared to 19,500 identified as “at ...

Scientists consider that zone, which amounts to a 1 ... Many areas of western North Carolina affected by flooding had FEMA ...

FEMA’s revised flood zone maps now have them in a flood zone, when they weren’t previously considered at-risk. “We’re getting phone calls here as commissioners and people are letting us ...

Construction costs in Midtown likely will jump now that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has updated its flood zone maps, raising the required ground elevations for future construction.