All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 8 2010 // Asia’s death toll from vicious rains spiked Thursday to nearly 140 as disaster officials reached previously isolated areas in Vietnam, while the worst flooding in parts of southern China in nearly a half-century...
Oct 7 2010 // Willis Re, the reinsurance arm of global insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, has released “detailed risk estimates and large event scenarios for key cities including São Paulo, Santiago and...
Oct 6 2010 // Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it “an...
Oct 4 2010 // The nation’s flood insurance program is extending the availability of lower cost policies for some property owners who have been recently remapped into higher-priced areas.Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the...
Oct 4 2010 // The good news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011.The bad news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011. It’s...
Oct 4 2010 // The good news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011.The bad news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011. It’s...
Oct 4 2010 // Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been re-zoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low-to-moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa....
Oct 4 2010 // The good news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011.The bad news is that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been extended until Sept. 30, 2011. It’s...
Oct 4 2010 // Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been re-zoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low to moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa....
Oct 4 2010 // The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives have both approved a one-year reauthorization of the nation’s flood insurance program.The measure, S. 3814, will extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Oct 1 2010 // It’s official: the federal flood insurance program will be around for at least one more year.President Obama yesterday signed into law S. 3814, the bill that will extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Sep 28 2010 // A bulletin from Munich Re underlines the “exceptionally high” incidence of “weather-related natural catastrophe losses in the first nine months of 2010,” both in “number and scale.” The...
Sep 24 2010 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Hurricane Karl, which made its second landfall in Mexico last Friday as a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, has caused several rivers and canals to...
Sep 24 2010 // The House of Representatives joined the Senate yesterday in approving a one-year reauthorization of the nation’s flood insurance program.The measure, S. 3814, will extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Sep 23 2010 // Congress is on track to temporarily extend within days a troubled program that insures millions of U.S. homes and businesses against floods, with another push for a broad overhaul looking likely next year.The Senate on...
Sep 23 2010 // Since 2008, many homes and businesses in the United States have been rezoned on Federal Emergency Management Administration flood hazard maps from low-to-moderate flood risk areas into higher risk areas, and vice versa....
Sep 22 2010 // The U.S. Senate last night passed by unanimous consent a measure extending the National Flood Insurance Program for one year until Sept. 30, 2011.The Senate one-year reauthorization must now pass the House of...
Sep 21 2010 // Flooding that struck Iowa State University in August caused up to $50 million in damage and other costs, but the school started fall classes on time and won’t have to replace any of the major campus facilities that...
Sep 21 2010 // The Army Corps of Engineers said that a diversion plan for the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead area will be delayed because it needs to study the project more.The agency said the move is necessary because the effects...
Sep 20 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls, S.D.’s flood plain, a city official said.Once the flood-control measures are in...