flood zone
Example Sentences
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A new San Gabriel mission was being built, five years after Franciscan missionaries had founded the original mission in a flood zone, which flooded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
“Elevated high above the flood zone and offering 1,250 feet of direct water frontage the property unfolds with extraordinary scale and privacy.”
From MarketWatch ● May 26, 2026
Homes damaged by Hurricane Harvey in 2017 were far less likely to default if they were inside the federal flood zone, a Wharton School study found.
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
These were followed by more substantial brick buildings, until it became evident that no house in the flood zone was safe.
From The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall
