FARGO - At what Red River level is a 100-year flood in Fargo-Moorhead? Scientifically speaking, the answer depends on the source of information: the Federal Emergency Management Agency or the U.S.

On Monday morning, people in Florida living and staying along Florida’s Gulf Coast and in the Big Bend region woke up to a Category 1 hurricane at their door. Here’s the difference between a flood and ...

FARGO - The Diversion Authority's board got some sobering news Thursday at its first meeting: the government's definition of a 100-year flood keeps creeping up. Aaron Snyder, a project manager for the ...

Commission chair Hank Bagelmann noted the flood definitions hadn’t been changed “in a long, long time,” and said many of the changes looked like lessons FEMA learned in previous flood events in Iowa, ...

Massive 500-year floods could inundate the region as often as every five years after 2030, according to a new study from Rutgers researchers. For the study, the team modeled how storm surges have ...

In February 2025, we asked consumers with buildings insurance how they defined ‘flood’ and ‘storm’. Most of those surveyed thought that a flood was when water builds up in your home, no matter how ...