All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2021 // Jennifer Carnevale’s yard can hold 23 inches of water before her house floods.She knows because her family has seen the water cross that all-important threshold, twice. “We’ve measured it,” the...
Aug 24 2021 // Officials have found a fifth person dead after flooding in western North Carolina. Haywood County Emergency Services announced in a Facebook post that they found the fifth victim, Frank Lauer Sr., 74, of Cruso on Sunday....
Aug 24 2021 // The heavy rains and floods that killed at least 220 people in Belgium and Germany this summer were made more likely and more intense by climate change.These are the conclusions of a rapid attribution report put together in...
Aug 23 2021 // At least 22 people were killed and rescue crews searched desperately amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surging through Middle...
Aug 23 2021 // Henri is soaking the U.S. Northeast with rain and disrupting transport after being downgraded to a tropical depression.The former hurricane will produce additional rainfall of 1 to 3 inches, with locally higher amounts...
Aug 23 2021 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe modeling company, estimates that insured losses from the Western and Central Europe flooding, which occurred between July 12 and 18, 2021, will likely range between €5 billion...
Aug 23 2021 // Catastrophic flooding in Middle Tennessee left at least 22 dead and dozens missing Saturday as rains washed away homes and rural roads, authorities said.Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis told news outlets more than 20...
Aug 23 2021 // Federal officials say a train that derailed and caught fire in Fort Worth in 2019 was traveling on tracks that had been weakened by flooding after days of rain.The National Transportation Safety Board said in an accident...
Aug 18 2021 // North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has issued a State of Emergency in response to Tropical Storm Fred, which caused severe flood in the western part of the state.Approximately 30 people are currently in missing in Haywood...
Aug 16 2021 // A storm system that stalled for days over West Texas led to what a National Weather Service meteorologist on Aug. 14 called an “unprecedented” amount of rain in the predominantly dry El Paso area, leaving a...
Aug 12 2021 // Flooding and debris from storm runoff closed a 17.5-mile stretch of U.S. between Superior and Miami in east-central Arizona, authorities said.The Arizona Department of Transportation said there was no estimated reopening...
Aug 10 2021 // The state is going to ask the Federal Emergency Management Agency to see if the damage caused by flooding in southern Vermont will qualify for disaster assistance.To qualify, Vermont must show there is at least a million...
Aug 6 2021 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has so far approved about $29 million in grants for Detroit residents whose homes and property suffered damage from heavy flooding during a late June storm.FEMA teams were in Detroit...
Aug 6 2021 // A former mayor in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to stealing federal relief funds meant to rebuild his city after a massive 2016 flood.Ex-Richwood Mayor Bob Henry Baber, 70, pleaded guilty Monday in Nicholas County...
Aug 5 2021 // HCI Group, Inc. announced that its insurtech subsidiary, TypTap Insurance Group, Inc., a Florida-based writer of private market homeowners and flood insurance, has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement...
Aug 5 2021 // Heavy, continuous rain in parts of northern New England led to flash flooding, washed out roads and a few home rescues, authorities said.The latest rains come as what has been a soggy July in some parts of the region comes...
Aug 3 2021 // Colorado-based reThought Insurance, a managing general agency focused on the flood insurance market, has secured $15.5 million in investment to accelerate its growth.The company currently writes flood coverage for complex...
Aug 2 2021 // The state of Michigan will disburse $10 million in emergency relief funding to help Detroit-area and other southeastern Michigan residents whose homes, businesses and belongings were damaged by recent flooding caused by a...
Aug 2 2021 // Heavy, continuous rain in parts of northern New England led to flash flooding, washed out roads and a few home rescues, authorities said.Police in Marlow, in southwestern New Hampshire, said four people and two animals...
Jul 29 2021 // The Boston area’s subway system faces a severe threat from rising seas over the next 50 years that could cause flooding and cut critical links around the city, according to a new study.The report, written by...