A flood elevation certificate shows your home's elevation relative to potential floodwaters. It’s used to assess your flood risk and set your flood insurance rates.

WHY: Whether the house is built on a slab or a few feet above ground on piers, homeowners typically elevate them to reduce the risk of flooding. Elevation is also a way for homeowners to decrease ...

Vail Mountain is a skier’s paradise, and this is not an exaggeration at all. The park has a elevation range of 8,120 to 11,570 feet, so you have a decent 3,450 foot drop to work with.

An elevation of about 20,000 feet above sea level is the maximum height at which sufficient oxygen exists in the air to sustain us. By comparison, the summit of Mount Everest (the Earth’s ...

As the chance of low-elevation snow increases for Wednesday morning, those in the hills above 500 feet will likely see a couple of inches of snow.

The onset of problems with increasing elevation is known as acute mountain sickness, or AMS. The percentage of oxygen in air, about 21 percent, remains unchanged up to an elevation of about 7,000 ...

If you aren’t sure what your elevation is, there are several tools available online to determine how high above sea level you are. The National Weather Service in Portland offers an extensive ...