The Federal Emergency Management Agency added more than 25,000 Long Island properties - most in Nassau - to its flood zone maps when they were updated last September.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE FEMA MAP SERVICE CENTER "I have to get flood insurance. It costs me an extra $2,000 [per year]," McKnight told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs.

These maps were designed to help homeowners and business owners determine their properties' flood potential, but do not show the changes taking effect in the flood plain borders. Once there, type ...

FEMA released new flood maps of Long Island online Wednesday, adding more than 25,000 homes to the new flood zones. James Callahan, Nassau County's commissioner of Emergency Management, says the new ...

As of Jan. 31, 2015, the last time FEMA revised its preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps, 11,600 of Staten Island's 135,200 structures were located within the Special Flood Hazard Area -- where ...

New Nassau County flood plain maps are coming out in September. On Thursday July 23, a meeting sponsored by Nassau County Legislator Diane Yatauro’s office along with the Village of Bayville was ...

VALLEY STREAM, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Confusion reigns on Long Island in the Village of Valley Stream after the Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed to drop 1,500 homes from its new flood maps.