All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 16 2022 // Local officials and area representatives gathered recently in a sunroom by Lake George to discuss the need to invest in local infrastructure as more frequent and heavy rain events caused by climate change strain aging...
Mar 10 2022 // Texas’ administration of flood relief money from Hurricane Harvey broke federal law by discriminating against Black and Hispanic residents in the Houston area, according to a decision by the federal housing agency...
Mar 8 2022 // Flood warnings stretched across Australia’s east coast on Tuesday and tens of thousands of Sydney residents fled their homes as torrential rains again pummeled the country’s largest city, flooding several big...
Mar 4 2022 // Property and auto insurers in Australia have received 60,163 claims related to the ongoing disastrous flooding in South-East Queensland and New South Wales. Based on previous flood events, the Insurance Council of...
Mar 3 2022 // A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stating that climate change is leading to increasingly irreversible impacts, with a narrowing window to adapt to it, is garnering a lot of reaction.The IPCC...
Mar 3 2022 // Sydney was preparing on Wednesday for dangerous flash flooding as population centers farther north began a massive cleanup operation after record floods that have claimed at least 14 lives along Australia’s east...
Mar 2 2022 // Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves, St. Charles Parish President Matthew Jewell, FEMA representatives, and members from the St. Charles Parish Council will host a townhall meeting on Thursday, March 3, 2022, 6:00 PM to...
Feb 25 2022 // More than 126,000 commercial buildings in London are at risk from flash flooding. Climate change will heighten that threat.Those are the findings of a new study by Zurich Insurance Group, which mapped every commercial and...
Feb 18 2022 // PETROPOLIS, Brazil (AP) – Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 105 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their...
Feb 17 2022 // Climate change could result in the financial toll of flooding rising by more than a quarter in the U.S. by 2050, according to new research.The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature Climate...
Feb 15 2022 // Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms.The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major...
Feb 14 2022 // Wholesale insurance broker Burns & Wilcox has added five new associates across the country to its private client and flood teams within its Personal Insurance practice group. The professionals joining Burns &...
Feb 14 2022 // Detroit is starting a program to reduce chronic basement flooding during intense storms.The program initially will target two neighborhoods and later expand to others, Mayor Mike Duggan said. The strategy follows major...
Feb 11 2022 // FloodFlash, the UK parametric insurance technology company that pays catastrophic flood claims within 48 hours, announced a Series A capital raise of $15 million.The round was led by Chicago-based Buoyant Ventures with San...
Feb 10 2022 // The sun was shining when Kim Williams hopped in her Honda Odyssey to visit a friend at a nursing home. But an unexpected downpour on the drive back left her trapped in a maze of flooded streets.Williams made turn after...
Feb 8 2022 // One in four UK properties are at risk of flood, according to new analysis from JBA Risk Management. The flood specialist’s new UK Flood Model, launched last week, also highlights an estimated annual cost of £527...
Feb 7 2022 // An insurance policy that lists named windstorms among the covered perils doesn’t cover flood damages caused by Hurricane Harvey even though flooding wasn’t specifically excluded, a panel of the 5th Circuit...
Jan 31 2022 // The state of Louisiana is now accepting buyout applications from some property owners in a Livingston Parish neighborhood that continually floods.The buyout program affects property owners in Priority Zone 1 of the Spring...
Jan 27 2022 // Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past 25 years, according to an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) released...
Jan 25 2022 // Missouri Gov. Mike Parson wants to spend $10.4 million to create a new office that would help the state better prepare for floods and drought.Missouri Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman Connie Patterson told the...