All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 20 2017 // The cost of federal flood insurance is expected to rise for thousands of Houston-area homeowners as Congress looks to overhaul a program that’s billions of dollars in debt.The National Flood Insurance Program...
Mar 17 2017 // A trial is underway in which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is defending itself against more than 300 farmers and other landowners who say the agency’s management of the Missouri River has contributed to major...
Mar 16 2017 // Northern North Dakota – the Souris River, Devils Lake and the northernmost reaches of the Red River – has the greatest risk of major flooding this spring, while moderate flooding is possible over southern Idaho in the...
Mar 14 2017 // Floods a year ago took everything from Vivian, La., resident Gwen Smith.“I lost my home completely,” she said. Before the flood hit on March 9, 2016, Smith had lived most of her adult life in the mobile home....
Mar 10 2017 // The heavy snowfall so far this winter in parts of central and western Wyoming has forecasters looking at potential spring flooding in some major watersheds that haven’t seen it in decades.National Weather Service...
Mar 8 2017 // A federal appeals court on March 3 refused to revive a Louisiana levee board’s lawsuit blaming dozens of oil and gas companies for damage to the state’s fragile coast, a major victory for energy companies and...
Mar 8 2017 // When the floodwaters rushed in last month in San Jose, a firefighter hauled Hien Nguyen to safety. She left behind the two-bedroom apartment she shared with a roommate for $1,000 a month, managing only to take her...
Mar 6 2017 // Flooding in southern Louisiana in the late summer of 2016 revealed 86 percent of flooded homes had no flood insurance. No flood insurance next door to one of our nation’s — and that state’s —...
Mar 3 2017 // A California billionaire has donated $5 million for flood relief efforts in San Jose.Kieu Hoang is a one-time refugee from Vietnam who built a fortune in medical products. He presented a check to city officials this week....
Mar 2 2017 // More extreme weather has led to more extreme insurance claims in the U.S. over the past few years.In a review of more than 100,000 commercial catastrophe claims during a 10-year period, Mark A. Anderson, a claims executive...
Mar 1 2017 // A San Jose, Calif. official says an initial estimate puts damage costs from last week’s flooding of several residential neighborhoods at $73 million.Assistant City Manager David Sykes said flood damage to private...
Feb 27 2017 // California Gov. Jerry Brown is calling for a boost in spending on water and transportation infrastructure as the waterlogged state grapples with an emergency dam repair, frantic levee fixes and catastrophic road damage...
Feb 23 2017 // Climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but as a steady drip, drip, drip of nuisance flooding.According to researchers at the...
Feb 21 2017 // More than two dozen Lexington County, S.C., residents are ready to sell their homes rather than repair the flood damage.The State newspaper reported that 28 homeowners are asking county officials to buy and demolish the...
Feb 15 2017 // Roughly 50,047 single- and multi-family residential homes could be damaged with an estimated reconstruction cost value of $13.3 billion if the Oroville Dam in California were to fail completely, according to new data...
Feb 15 2017 // Environmental activists and local government officials warned more than a decade ago about the risk of catastrophic flooding below a major Northern California dam – the very scenario that threatened to unfold over the...
Feb 14 2017 // Palomar Specialty Insurance Co. has launched Flood Guard, a private flood program in California that uses an advanced and granular proprietary rating system. Palomar used catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s...
Feb 13 2017 // Federal water managers declared a first-stage flood emergency for the first time at a popular state park and released water from a dam as warming temperatures sent water from rapid snowmelt into homes and onto roads in...
Feb 9 2017 // Gov. John Bel Edwards is making his sixth trip to Washington to lobby for $2 billion more federal flood aid for Louisiana.The state has received $1.6 billion from Congress so far to respond to the March and August...
Feb 9 2017 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has issued Emergency Rule 32, which extends previous emergency rules issued after the historic flooding in the state in August 2016.The Louisiana Department of Insurance said...