All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Feb 9 2017 // Major weather and flood events in the U.S. during January will cost the insurance industry more than $1 billion as tornadoes hit a 17-year high, according a report published by Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s...
Feb 8 2017 // Baton Rouge, La., officials are preparing to tear down abandoned homes that were damaged from flooding in August. The city-parish said in a Feb. 6 news release that officials will start to condemn the abandoned units, with...
Feb 8 2017 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted another extension giving National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders in Florida an additional...
Feb 7 2017 // Officials estimate that it will cost more than $62 million and years of work to repair flooded schools in Baton Rouge.The Advocate reports that of the 10 schools that were forced to temporarily relocate because of the...
Feb 7 2017 // After several dry springs, communities are keeping a wary eye on the Red River in case it’s due for another flood.The region has been soaked with double the usual amount of winter rain, sleet and snow this winter,...
Feb 6 2017 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon says the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted an additional 90-day extension of an important deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders affected...
Feb 2 2017 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Annual Summary from CoreLogic Details 2016 Natural Hazard Events CoreLogic® analyzes and evaluates the number and severity of natural hazard events that occurred across...
Feb 1 2017 // A U.S. flood insurance program that is drowning in billions of dollars in debt can be modernized to bolster its finances while curbing the public’s exposure to flood risks, a national coalition said in a reform...
Jan 31 2017 // The LSU AgCenter says late planting and August floods hurt Louisiana’s sweet potato harvest, cutting the yield from 450 bushels an acre in 2015 to 290 bushels per acre last year. Extension Associate Myrl Systrunk...
Jan 27 2017 // The phrase “new normal” might be a cliché, but it was too hard for Ben McKay, executive director of the Surplus Lines Association of California, to avoid using when describing the state’s excess and...
Jan 26 2017 // Officials intend to introduce an innovative plan to speed up funding for flood-control measures along Houston bayous.The Houston Chronicle reports the city council is considering a payment plan that would have the state...