All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2020 // Hurricane Sally drew closer to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday morning, threatening historic floods, the National Hurricane Center said, with more than two feet (61 cm)of rain expected in some areas.The second strong storm...
Sep 15 2020 // Passaic County in New Jersey is not in the hurricane belt nor is it on the banks of a major river, and yet 810 properties there received $170 million of taxpayer money through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)...
Sep 15 2020 // Charleston is now the first city in the American South to sue major oil companies in an attempt to hold them accountable for the “daunting” costs of climate change, city officials announced Sept. 9.The 24...
Sep 15 2020 // Neptune Flood, an AI-driven flood insurance company, has expanded its flood insurance products to now include all NFIP product types.Neptune, which has previously offered flood insurance for one to four family homes, and...
Sep 14 2020 // Update 4:00 pm EST: Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as Hurricane Sally churned across the Gulf of Mexico, strengthening to a hurricane ahead of expected landfall on Tuesday, the...
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as former Tropical Storm Sally strengthened to a hurricane status and churned across the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...
Sep 10 2020 // A number of flood-prone Texas counties have seen a decline in the number of flood insurance policies in place, the state insurance department reportedDespite hurricanes, Corpus Christi region has had a decrease in the...
Sep 7 2020 // Not Only in FEMA Zones, Not Only During Hurricane SeasonMajor companies across the U.S. are increasingly recognizing the risk for inland flooding and with good reason. As recent hurricanes like Harvey and Florence made...
Aug 31 2020 // A northern Indiana city that sits along the Wabash River is home to thousands more flood-prone homes and properties than are listed on federal floodplain maps, new research shows.The study by the First Street Foundation, a...
Aug 31 2020 // The updated estimate of the insured property market loss for floods that hit February 9 to 29, 2020, across the United Kingdom is £375 million.PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organisation providing industry-wide...
Aug 28 2020 // The Army Corps of Engineers released a revised flood protection plan for Honolulu neighborhoods that includes fewer impacts on natural streams and residential properties within the watershed.The updated Ala Wai Flood...
Aug 27 2020 // Ratings analysts A.M. Best and Moody’s are expecting property/casualty insurers and reinsurers to suffer meaningful losses from Hurricane Laura.A.M. Best expects losses from Hurricane Laura to place added stress on...
Aug 26 2020 // The St. George, Utah, area along the border between Utah and Arizona was inundated with flash floods after a torrential downpour on Sunday.A large thunderstorm rained down more than an inch of water throughout the area....
Aug 25 2020 // Tropical Storm Laura morphed into a hurricane on Aug. 25, 2020 — three years to the day after Hurricane Harvey swept ashore on the Texas Gulf Coast — and is expected to make landfall just days before the 15-year...
Aug 25 2020 // High tides surging from a narrow creek destroyed the car Kathy Blake once parked in her gravel driveway here. Over the past two decades, the water has ruined half a dozen of them.Since October, when one of those floods...
Aug 24 2020 // Wright National Flood Insurance Services (WNFIS) has introduced two private flood insurance products for Virginia residential property owners – The Wright Residential Private Flood Insurance Program and Hiscox...
Aug 24 2020 // Estimated total insured losses from Hurricane Isaias will be between $3.0 and $4.5 billion in the U.S. This includes estimated losses to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) of between $400 and $700 million,...
Aug 23 2020 // SUNDAY, 08/23/2020, 06:23 PM— Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura tore through the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, forcing thousands of coastal residents in Louisiana and Cuba to evacuate and flooding roads...
Aug 21 2020 // West Virginia’s attorney general sued Walmart and drugstore chain CVS on Tuesday, saying they failed to monitor and report suspicious orders of prescription painkillers to their retail pharmacies in a state ravaged...
Aug 18 2020 // Torrential weekend rains in central Virginia led to scores of road closings in low-lying areas and prompted home evacuations near a pair of small dams.Between three inches and 10 inches of rain fell in the greater Richmond...