All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 30 2018 // A new carrier has entered the Florida flood insurance market with a policy it says will provide better coverage than what is available from the National Flood Insurance Program.Ormond Beach, Fla.-based Security First...
Jul 27 2018 // Sweltering? Swimming? Choking on wildfire smoke? Blame it on the jet stream and a warming world.Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the jet stream — the ribbon of wind that...
Jul 27 2018 // Typhoon Jongdari is set to make landfall on Japan’s mainland this weekend, bringing heavy rain and strong winds to much of a country hit in recent weeks by a deadly heatwave and historic flooding.The typhoon was...
Jul 26 2018 // Heavy downpours soaked parts of central Pennsylvania, causing evacuations and forcing an amusement park to close for the second time this week. Hersheypark announced it would be closed Wednesday. The park closed Monday...
Jul 26 2018 // Extreme weather that’s gripping northern Europe and parts of Asia may persist through early August, prolonging a deadly heatwave that’s parched crops and sparked devastating forest fires.Temperatures have risen...
Jul 25 2018 // The House of Representatives passed a measure to reauthorize the nation’s flood insurance program for four months beyond its current July 31 expiration date.The House measure to renew the National Flood Insurance...
Jul 25 2018 // People in southern Colorado are cleaning up after heavy rain triggered mudslides and flooding and hail piled up like snow. Residents and businesses in Manitou Springs near Colorado Springs were told to evacuate because of...
Jul 25 2018 // Less than 12 percent of U.S. homeowners have a flood insurance policy, despite the fact that flooding is the country’s most common natural disaster, said Katy Sivyer, underwriter for North America and the Caribbean...
Jul 25 2018 // West Virginia will receive $690 million in federal funding for flood management and repair projects. U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding July 18 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A...
Jul 24 2018 // Flooding triggered by a tropical storm has killed at least 20 people and left over a dozen missing in northern Vietnam, local media reports said.Ten people drowned in floods caused by heavy rain in Yen Bai province after...
Jul 24 2018 // Rising water levels have some residents of Alaska’s capital city on edge, following the release of water from a glacially dammed lake.Jessica Voveris is meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau. She...
Jul 24 2018 // The market for privately written inland flood insurance in the United States is growing rapidly, but flood modeling is still in its infancy. As a result, underwriters need to be aware of the differences that exist among...
Jul 19 2018 // Thunderstorms have caused flights to be delayed and knocked out power in some parts of Massachusetts.A flood warning was issued by the National Weather Service for the areas of Springfield, Clinton, Boston and Northborough...
Jul 18 2018 // The National Weather Service says the storm that swept across northern Arizona over the weekend amounted to a 100-year event.The Arizona Daily Sun reported that those types of storms have a 1 percent chance of happening...
Jul 17 2018 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, announced it has strengthened the Asia Pacific capabilities of its Version 18 catastrophe risk management software.The Asia Pacific model suit is being...
Jul 16 2018 // Governments in DeSoto County, Mississippi will spend more than $3 million to study flooding.WHBQ-TV reports that half the money will come from the federal government, while half will come from DeSoto County and local...
Jul 16 2018 // Texas officials are struggling to enforce part of a flood insurance program requirement that aims to elevate or remove severely damaged properties from flood plains, according to a newspaper investigation.The Houston...
Jul 12 2018 // It may sound far-fetched, but a massive tunnel system is one concept on the table as the Harris County Flood Control District begins to explore more creative flood control methods after Hurricane Harvey, when the Houston...
Jul 10 2018 // Texas officials are struggling to enforce part of a flood insurance program that aims to elevate or remove severely damaged properties from flood plains, according to a newspaper investigation.The Houston Chronicle...
Jul 10 2018 // Zurich Insurance Group announced that after five successful years its flood resilience alliance will be extended until 2023.In the last five years, a multi-sector alliance comprising the non-governmental organization (NGO)...