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

Additional dangerous flash flooding incidents are likely in the coming days as high humidity, daytime heat and storm systems interact from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Plains, Gulf coast and Southwest.

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.

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

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

"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."

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,

The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, estimates that the annual cost of flooding in the United States will increase 26.4 percent — from $32.1 billion to $40.6 billion — by ...

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.