April 15, 2025
Now Is the Time for Radical Honesty in Flood Policy
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
A call for radically honest conversations on flood policy to ensure government decisions truly serve constituents and reduce future flood risk.
February 13, 2025
Rising to the Challenge: Ensuring Flood Resilience in an Era of Change
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
In this column, I want to focus on how we, individually and collectively, can rise to the challenge and ensure that flood resilience remains a cornerstone of public safety and prosperity.
January 28, 2025
Trump’s Executive Orders, FEMA, and ASFPM’s Role in Helping to Shape the Future
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
A message to ASFPM members and others who may wish to join the conversation on how we can best work together to reduce our nation’s flood risk.
January 9, 2025
How the ‘Safe Development Paradox’ Shapes Risky Floodplain Growth
By News Editor
Development will often cluster just beyond the highest-risk flood areas, even though the risk extends beyond the floodplain’s edge.
August 15, 2024
Why Finishing the Nation’s Flood Maps Is More Critical Than Ever
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
Our nation’s chronic underinvestment in flood mapping has led to a staggering increase in flood losses.
December 2, 2023
FIRM 2D: A New Methodology for Using HEC-RAS 2D Models in Flood Insurance Maps
By Nazir Hejazi, MSc, CFM
Now is a good time to make the transition from 1D to 2D flow modeling.
November 2, 2023
TMAC Recommends Big Changes for How Special Flood Hazard Area is Defined
By News Editor
The recommendations are consistent with several of ASFPM’s policy positions.
September 27, 2023
Rethinking Our Nation’s Flood Standards
By Larry Larson, P.E., CFM
There are a number of signs the US is moving toward the 500-year flood standard
September 11, 2023
New Online GIS Training: Mapping Repetitive Flood Risk
By News Editor
The course is designed to teach local floodplain managers how to map repetitive flood loss areas to better understand their community’s flood risk.