Overview

• Search teams have recovered at least 119 bodies, including 27 children and counselors, and are still seeking more than 170 people following the July 4 flash flood.
• FEMA data reviewed in the investigation classify Camp Mystic’s cabins and several newer structures as falling within an extreme flood-hazard corridor along the Guadalupe River.
• A $5 million expansion completed six years ago did not relocate the camp’s most vulnerable cabins and secured approval for additional buildings in other high-risk flood zones.
• Kerr County inspectors signed off on the camp’s emergency plans two days before the disaster without ordering any cabins to move out of designated flood corridors.
• Critics argue that Trump-era staffing cuts at the National Weather Service and added FEMA approval layers delayed warnings and the deployment of urban search-and-rescue teams.