All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 28 2016 // Estimates of flood damage from last week’s flood are rising in Waseca, Minnesota, officials say, and in neighboring South Dakota weekend storms damaged homes in the Oglala area.In Minnesota, Waseca County’s...
Sep 28 2016 // Two South Texas counties have been declared state disaster areas following late-summer heavy rain and flooding. Gov. Greg Abbott on Sept. 26 announced the disaster declarations for Atascosa and Wilson counties. The time...
Sep 27 2016 // Officials say as many as 4,000 homeowners in Louisiana’s St. Charles Parish may be eligible for a dramatic reduction in flood insurance rates. Starting Oct. 1, residents on the parish’s east bank may be...
Sep 27 2016 // Hawaii Gov. David Ige said he plans to ask President Barack Obama for federal assistance to help Maui communities clean up and repair areas damaged by flooding through Iao Valley.The state and Maui County have already...
Sep 27 2016 // Damage from flooding in eastern North Carolina approached the level of destruction left behind by Hurricane Irene in 2011, Gov. Pat McCrory said Friday.But instead of the hurricane’s storm surge, the cause of this...
Sep 23 2016 // The summer of 2016 has lurched from one extreme weather disaster to another at great cost in lives and damages. Here are just some of the worst and weirdest, according to insurance statistics and meteorologists: Flooding...
Sep 23 2016 // Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is extending a state of emergency for five West Virginia counties devastated by floods in June.Tomblin announced the extension until Oct. 21 for Clay, Greenbrier, Kanawha, Nicholas and Webster...
Sep 22 2016 // The 22 Louisiana parishes that were impacted by record flooding in August will experience varying degrees of economic and financial stress, according to S&P Global Ratings.This is because local governments all have...
Sep 22 2016 // The federal government has contracted with private reinsurers to improve the National Flood Insurance Program’s claims paying ability and reduce the need for the NFIP to borrow from the U.S. Treasury to cover future...
Sep 22 2016 // House Speaker Paul Ryan says he supports an immediate infusion of flood aid to Louisiana as part of a temporary government-wide spending bill that’s atop the congressional agenda before lawmakers leave Washington for...
Sep 21 2016 // West Virginia lawmakers have finished a brief session addressing recovery costs from deadly floods in June.The Senate adjourned Tuesday after confirming gubernatorial appointments. The House of Delegates adjourned Monday....
Sep 21 2016 // Residents of Detroit’s east side are seeking flood aid for property damage connected to July rainstorms.More than 1,000 claims have been filed with the Detroit Water Sewerage Department in connection to the July...
Sep 20 2016 // Nearly 1,250 farmers in South Carolina will get more than $35 million in aid for their losses during last October’s massive floods.The Department of Agriculture said in a news release Thursday that 88 farmers will...
Sep 19 2016 // Louisiana’s share of response costs to the August flooding could reach $81 million or more.That’s the estimate lawmakers received on Sept. 16, in a first accounting by Gov. John Bel Edwards’...
Sep 19 2016 // Maui residents and emergency crews are cleaning up following heavy downpours that flooded homes and caused landslides.Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa signed an emergency proclamation after the storm last week, which dropped nearly...
Sep 19 2016 // Experts warn the Carolinas will face droughts and deluges in coming years.Scientists, farmers and water managers met in Charlotte last week to explore ways to deal with coming dry weather and the sudden flooding that the...
Sep 19 2016 // The surplus lines industry continues to outperform the overall property/casualty market, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without its own challenges.The annual U.S. Surplus Lines – Segment Review, produced...
Sep 19 2016 // Emerging risks or traditional lines, innovation makes the differenceThe surplus lines market is eyeing another year of solid results for 2015. At press time, the final figures for 2015 surplus lines had yet to be released...
Sep 19 2016 // The August 2016 flooding in Louisiana caused an estimated $8.7 billion in damage to residential and commercial properties. Damage to businesses in the state has exceeded $2 billion, according to a report commissioned by...
Sep 15 2016 // Super Typhoon Meranti delivered very strong wind, high storm surge, and flooding precipitation to southern Taiwan as it passed through Luzon Strait near noon local time Wednesday.According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR...