All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 3 2018 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) supported 59 major disaster declarations and 16 emergency declarations in 2017, a year during which unprecedented disasters affected more than 25 million Americans, almost...
Jan 2 2018 // Ross Hancock sold his four-bedroom house in Coral Gables, a city of pastel luxury at the edge of Miami, because he was worried that sea-level rise would eventually hurt his property’s value. He and his wife, Darlene,...
Dec 29 2017 // It wouldn’t feel right to close out the year without looking back at the most popular stories on Insurance Journal during the past 12 months. Here are the national stories that attracted the most readers in 2017,...
Dec 28 2017 // The Monad Terrace—a 59-unit Miami Beach luxury condominium—hasn’t been built yet, but its salesroom is up and running.Set on the ground floor of an office building a few blocks from the Monad’s bayfront...
Dec 19 2017 // The worst hurricane season in memory has spurred President Donald Trump to consider new ways to prod private homeowners to move out of flood plains. But many of the federal government’s own buildings are also at risk...
Dec 18 2017 // Texas has been awarded billions in federal aid to help recover from Hurricane Harvey and the devastating flooding that followed, but it’s unclear how the state is spending its share of the money.State records...
Dec 18 2017 // A housing developer is hoping to win approval from Houston officials to put a 151-acre project on a former golf course where the city and Harris County have spent millions of dollars to buy out homeowners whose properties...
Dec 14 2017 // The end of the year deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders affected by the flooding in August 2016 of South Louisiana is fast approaching. After six extensions, the deadline for the filing of...
Dec 12 2017 // When Hurricane Harvey sent two feet of water rolling into this small community about 35 miles north of Houston, Alfredo Becerra had to flee his modest 1,500-square-foot house.Muddy floodwater submerged the furniture and...
Dec 11 2017 // A Houston business group said on Dec. 8 that Hurricane Harvey’s biggest long-term impact on the nation’s fourth-largest city likely will be on where and how new homes and structures are built.The results of...
Dec 11 2017 // A $4 million flood protection project in Bismarck set for next year will affect nearly two dozen properties that won’t be protected by the levee that’s being built.The Burleigh County Water Resource...
Dec 11 2017 // Typhoon Damrey made landfall in Vietnam during November as a Category 2 strength storm, bringing estimated economic damages of VND22.1 trillion (US$1.0 billion) – a rare billion-dollar event for the country, according to...
Dec 11 2017 // For days after Hurricane Harvey flooded her Sour Lake, Texas, neighborhood, Deanna Coburn’s farm was silent, without its usual chorus of bleating goats and crowing roosters.The Beaumont Enterprise reports her...
Dec 11 2017 // New Mexico’s congressional delegation is asking the federal government for help as a Native American community in the state is recovering from the effects of severe weather and flooding.The delegation says a storm in...
Dec 8 2017 // Prospect General Insurance Agency has expanded Flood Guard, its admitted residential flood insurance product, into Oregon.Flood Guard provides residential flood coverage and is an alternative to the National Flood...
Dec 7 2017 // Officials in a Texas county devastated by Hurricane Harvey have approved new regulations on building construction in flood-prone locations, rules they touted as the nation’s toughest for a major metropolitan area.The...
Dec 6 2017 // House Republicans are moving ahead with a plan to avoid a Saturday U.S. government shutdown by passing a two-week stopgap spending measure, overriding conservative GOP lawmakers who were pressing for a longer extension to...
Dec 6 2017 // An estimated 23 percent of residential and commercial properties in the U.S. are at high or moderate risk of flooding but are outside of designated Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) as identified by the Federal Emergency...
Dec 6 2017 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking to recover the full $1.042 billion of its reinsurance coverage to help pay the federal flood insurance program’s losses from Hurricane Harvey. Those paid...
Dec 4 2017 // The Trump administration’s proposed $12 billion initiative to reduce future flood damage met with skepticism in Congress, as lawmakers warned against diverting emergency funding away from hurricane...