Per estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, New Orleans will most likely be 85% below sea level by the end of the century, and only levees and floodwalls are keeping the ...

Green will become the favorite color for thousands of New Orleans property ... The flood maps determine a property’s relationship to the established base-flood elevation of that area.

Map of Louisiana population change by parish, 2020 to 2023 In many ways, the population drops are hardly a surprise. Some parts of the New Orleans area, such as St. John, were particularly hard ...

On Friday, New Orleans received new flood maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Overnight, more than half the population moved out of the so-called high-risk zone. But with half the ...

New flood insurance maps for New Orleans, expected to be made final Wednesday (March 30) by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, promise dramatically lower premiums for many property owners ...

The study and map of variable ... of New Orleans," Cathleen Jones, JPL scientist and lead author of the new study, said in a news release. "The more recent land elevation change rates from this ...

In the second map offered ... would have been flooded if it had a similar elevation. Note that the blue outline only shows flooding in New Orleans proper; additional flooding occurred in certain ...

Green will become the favorite color for thousands of New Orleans property ... The flood maps determine a property’s relationship to the established base-flood elevation of that area.

Below, zoom in on your part of the U.S. to see how much of your area would have flooded if it had a similar elevation. Note that the blue outline only shows flooding in New Orleans proper ...