Click on the map above for an interactive version. Will your city or county be flooded by 2020? By 2050? Now there's a map for that. As many as 3.7 million U.S. residents in 2,150 coastal areas ...

But FEMA's insurance maps are based on past patterns of flooding. Future sea level rise — which is expected to create new, bigger flood zones — is not factored in. So some communities are ...

A map shows the growing threat to coastal cities across the United States due to rising sea levels. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ()'s latest projections, sea ...

In many parts of the world a quick glance at Google Maps can tell you how many feet above sea level you are at any given time. But like anything we measure, our estimations of elevation are ...

The East Bay facility houses about 10,000 workers at just 5 meters above sea level. Maps designed by Dana Amihere. Dan Ackerman and Tony Wagner contributed reporting.

Maps generally indicate elevation in meters above sea level. But sea level is not the same everywhere. A group of experts has developed an International Height Reference System (IHRS) that will ...

The map on the left shows what will be left of Florida under 5 meters (about 15 feet) of water: Light blue indicates areas that are only 10 meters above sea level, while the darker blue is areas 5 ...

While the vast majority of New Orleans’s 300,000 residents lived above sea level in the early 1900s, only 48 percent remained above the water in 1960, when the city’s population peaked at 627,525.

The elevation will appear in the text above the map. For example, the elevation of the former StarNews building, at 1003 S. 17th St. in Wilmington, is 42 feet above sea level.