The Latest Breaking News on Floods

The US president and vice president are visiting the Carolinas and Georgia, where more than one million lack power.

Damage to sewage systems and pipes means widespread boil water notices and conservation orders could last weeks

Hurricane Helene dumped heavy rain on a mountainous region hundreds of miles away from the coast

Hurricane Helene caused deadly and destructive flooding when it swept through the Southeast on Sept. 26-29, 2024. Across a broad swath of western North Carolina, where the worst flooding occurred, the amount of rainfall exceeded levels that would be expected on average only once every 1,000 years.

Working-class communities bear the brunt of Kathmandu’s floods, worsened by climate change and poor urban planning.

The Austrian capital has been spared the worst of recent flooding. Its experience could be a lesson in how to tackle the climate crisis, says climate economist Gernot Wagner

Workers inside a plastics factory in Tennessee say they narrowly escaped after flooding from Hurricane Helene

President Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina as rescuers continued their search for anyone still unaccounted for since Hurricane Helene’s deadly remnants caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast

Hurricane Helene killed scores of people when it struck Florida late last week and then plowed through the Southeast as one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history

As states begin to pick up the pieces, here’s what you can do.

Hurricane Helene’s flooding has subsided, but health risks are growing in hard-hit regions of the North Carolina mountains, where many people lost access to power and clean water.