The National Weather Service urged people to avoid travel if a flash flood warning was in place for their area.

This year has seen a seemingly endless string of flash floods across the U.S. The root causes are as diverse as they are complex

One month before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Black residents across southern Louisiana braced for their first tropical disturbance of hurricane season. The storm threatened to bring flash flooding across the coast from Mississippi to the center of Louisiana.

There’s been an abnormal amount of extreme rainfall across the United States in recent days. Here’s what’s driving it.

"2025 has been the year of the flood," said WPLG-TV meteorologist Michael Lowry in a July 15 email to USA TODAY. "The tragic July 4th flooding in central Texas – the deadliest flash flood in at least 50 years in the U.S. – punctuated what’s been an especially bad year for flooding across the country."

Significant decrease in missing persons after devastating Texas floods—read the latest from the ongoing search and rescue efforts.

July 4th is supposed to be a day of celebration. Family and friends come together to enjoy grilling, fun in the sun, local parades, and, of course, fireworks as the sun goes down. While this was the case for a majority of the United States,

New York, North Carolina, New Mexico and Texas have all suffered serious flooding this month. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.

An oceanographer explains how climate change, warming oceans and a souped-up atmosphere are creating conditions for deadly floods.

Torrential downpours that can trigger dangerous flooding is the main threat from a tropical rainstorm along the north-central Gulf coast for the balance of this week. Southern Louisiana is in the crosshairs.

U.S. President Donald Trump actually sent 700 U.S. Marine Corps troops to Los Angeles in June 2025 — alongside 4,000 National Guard troops.

Four 1-in-1,000-year flood events in the span of a week in the United States. In this week's wise, we break down what caused the floods and what impact they had on communities across the country.