flood zone

Example Sentences

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The federal flood zone stops short of Kyndall Monroe’s North Carolina house, which is 200 yards away from a creek.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 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

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

“My home is not even in a flood zone, so I never expected that,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

At the same time arrangements also were made for policing the flood zone and preventing looting.

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