All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 28 2016 // Nearly 240 Texas and Louisiana residents have sued the Sabine River Authority over March flooding that inundated hundreds of homes and closed Interstate 10.Communities in Southeast Texas and Louisiana were flooded by up to...
Apr 26 2016 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has granted a 60-day extension on filing the Proof of Loss form for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Apr 26 2016 // Nationwide will start winding down its status this May as a “Write Your Own” carrier within the federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program. Assurant said it formed an agreement with the insurer...
Apr 25 2016 // Officials in Houston have closed the last of the city’s shelters and moved more than 150 families into temporary housing following the torrential rains that claimed eight lives and displaced thousands of people in...
Apr 25 2016 // Leaders of nonprofit groups in Horry County, South Carolina, say that, six months after historic rains inundated South Carolina, volunteers are needed to help repair hundreds of homes in the county.The Sun News reports...
Apr 24 2016 // The state of South Dakota is working on new online flood mapping tools for the Big Sioux River Basin.The Google maps-style program should allow cities, counties, developers and emergency managers to test the flooding...
Apr 24 2016 // The city of Bellevue, Neb., the Metropolitan Utilities District, a plumbing contractor and its insurance company disagree about who’s to blame for a ruptured water line that flooded about 12 homes in February.The...
Apr 22 2016 // Eleven months ago, Houston had a deadly flood. This week, the city had another.Events like these are often called “100-year floods,” and that can be misleading. The U.S. government began using the term in the...
Apr 21 2016 // “It’s not for the faint of heart, I can tell you that… Anyone who comes in here and thinks it’s an easy job really does not have any idea what they’re getting into. But it’s been a...
Apr 19 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend its deadline for Louisiana homeowners impacted by flooding, the insurance department announced.A federal disaster...
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports.Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Apr 18 2016 // Building in flood zones is about to get harder across much of Oregon, due to new federal recommendations.The government published the recommendations, called a biological opinion, in response to a lawsuit from...
Apr 18 2016 // Mississippi’s disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms has been extended to 13 additional counties.Gov. Phil Bryant said at the beginning of April that 11 counties were added, followed by two...
Apr 18 2016 // A Florida-based homeowners insurer has beefed up its flood insurance offering with the launch of a new flood-coverage only company called TypTap.The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Homeowners Choice Property...
Apr 18 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a consumer alert telling homeowners about a process by which they can appeal their property’s placement in a flood zone by the federal government, which in...
Apr 18 2016 // New federal maps show that New Orleans is much less vulnerable to flooding than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck more than 10 years ago.As a result, Mayor Mitch Landrieu says, half of the city’s properties will...
Apr 14 2016 // Hail as big as grapefruits left behind broken windows and other storm damage in parts of South Texas Tuesday night.The National Weather Service says the San Antonio area has a chance for additional thunderstorms through...
Apr 11 2016 // The Nature Conservancy has announced plans to work with catastrophe risk modeling firm RMS, as well as with the Global Disaster Preparedness Center and others, in an effort to address climate impacts in South Florida.The...
Apr 10 2016 // The agricultural loss from the March flooding across Louisiana could top $15 million, according to an economist with the LSU AgCenter.Kurt Guidry said the loss figures are preliminary, because reports are coming in daily...
Apr 7 2016 // Insurers face a $2.0 billion bill following seven severe storm events across multiple states in March, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team.Overall economic losses...