{"id":1837737,"date":"2025-03-11T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1837737"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:39:43","slug":"fema-risk-maps-purged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/03\/fema-risk-maps-purged\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Risk Maps Purged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The current U.S. administration\u2019s map vandalism isn\u2019t limited to a certain international body of water<\/a>. Maps Mania reports<\/a> that FEMA<\/abbr>\u2019s online flood and risk maps have gone offline as part of the ongoing purge of everything related to climate change. One map, the Future Risk Index, has been salvaged by independent engineers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current U.S. administration\u2019s map vandalism isn\u2019t limited to a certain international body of water. Maps Mania reports that FEMA\u2019s online flood and risk maps have gone offline as part of the ongoing purge of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490,846,8],"tags":[877,878,448],"class_list":["post-1837737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-censorship","category-disasters","category-weather-and-climate","tag-fema","tag-flood-maps","tag-trump","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1845072,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/10\/why-fema-flood-maps-are-contentious\/","url_meta":{"origin":1837737,"position":0},"title":"Why FEMA Flood Maps Are Contentious","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"19 October 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Two recent articles on the contentiousness that breaks out at the local level when FEMA updates its flood maps. 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Future sea level rise\u2014which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones\u2014is not factored in.\u00a0So some communities are doing the mapping themselves.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Weather and Climate"","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1842906,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2025\/06\/quebec-flood-maps-will-get-a-new-framework-next-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":1837737,"position":2},"title":"Quebec Flood Maps Will Get a New Framework Next Year","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 June 2025","format":"link","excerpt":"Gouvernement du Qu\u00e9bec It seems as though the Quebec government has been in the process of updating its flood maps for the better part of the past decade (previously: Quebec\u2019s Updated Flood Maps Prove Controversial; Quebec Flood Maps). 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