flood zone

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A flood zone is an area that has a potential for flooding during heavy rains or a weather disaster.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Many of the more than 21,000 people who were evacuated from the flood zone began to return home as water receded in the central coastal city of Hue on Wednesday morning.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

Yet some of those very areas had been removed from a high-risk flood zone a decade earlier after the city successfully challenged a proposed map from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

With her apartment a flood zone and her landlord slacking off on the maintenance, Linda and her daughter are forced to live at a nearby hotel.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2025

Estimates of the flood death list in Columbus continued to range from fifty to five hundred, although these figures represented largely opinions of officials on duty in the flood zone.

From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Marshall, Logan