Buncombe County is part of the National Flood Insurance Program, ... Pennington said, and then would push for higher discounts after new floodplain maps were released.

Fewer than one percent of Buncombe structures, including homes and businesses, are covered by flood insurance, according to an Asheville Watchdog analysis of data from the National Flood Insurance ...

A flood advisory was released by the NWS Greenville-Spartanburg SC on Tuesday at 6:18 p.m. in effect until 9:30 p.m. for ...

Asheville and Buncombe County both require that the lowest inhabitable floor in new structures built in the 100-year floodplain be at least 2 feet above the level floodwaters would reach in a 100 ...

Buncombe County, like most governments across the state, is using 2010 flood maps, Pennington said. Such maps don’t reflect the risk that residents face as more rain events occur thanks to ...

In Buncombe County, where rising waters swamped areas like Asheville and Swannanoa, First Street’s maps show a much larger area of flood risk than the FEMA maps do.

In Buncombe County, N.C., where an entire town disappeared beneath floodwaters, less than 1 percent of households had flood insurance. In Unicoi County, Tenn., where dozens of residents were ...

ASHEVILLE - Nine-year-old Felix Wisely loved all things magical. The supernatural, folklore and creatures that most don’t believe in. He “loved to talk about the unknown,” his family said ...

BUNCOMBE CO., N.C. (WSPA) – The National Weather Service in Greenville-Spartanburg has issued a flash flood warning for Sunday evening in South Central, Buncombe County. At 9:22 p.m., doppler ...

Outdated FEMA flood maps labeled thousands of North Carolina homes as “low risk ... About 2,100 properties were in FEMA’s flood zone in Buncombe County compared to 19,500 identified ...

SWANNANOA, N.C. (WLOS) — Search teams with Urban Search and Rescue and the National Guard are in Buncombe County – specifically Swannanoa – looking for flood victims or victims in mudslide ...

Buncombe County is part of the National Flood Insurance Program, ... Pennington said, and then would push for higher discounts after new floodplain maps were released.