All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2024 // Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy released a report Thursday critical of the National Flood Insurance Program’s adoption of Risk Rating 2.0.The report, “The Flood Insurance Crisis: A Comprehensive Breakdown of...
Oct 23 2024 // Tropical Storm Trami has dumped heavy rain across the main island of the Philippines, triggering extensive flooding that’s affected around 150,000 people as the government shut most of its operations.Trami — known...
Oct 21 2024 // Floods engulfed parts of north-central Italy from overflowing rivers following days of heavy rain, prompting the state-led road operator to close some expressways.Severe flooding was seen in the region of Emilia Romagna on...
Oct 21 2024 // Hundreds of thousands of Americans already live in homes that have repeatedly flooded. To get a good handle on the extent of those losses, check out the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s web page that hosts an...
Oct 17 2024 // The death toll from Hurricane Milton has risen to at least 25, including an elderly man who died from smoke inhalation after a golf cart battery exploded when submerged by rising floodwaters.Local newspapers reported that...
Oct 17 2024 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The family of a Tennessee employee who was killed by catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company he worked for, arguing that workers...
Oct 17 2024 // The City of Isleton will take part in a community-based flood insurance initiative for as part of a two-year $200,000 grant to provide payouts to residents if floodwaters reach a pre-determined depth.The pilot project is...
Oct 15 2024 // The UK government has urged people to ensure they are prepared for flooding this winter after an unusually wet September.The warning marks “Flood Action Week” which starts Monday and coincides with the...
Oct 15 2024 // WASHINGTON (AP) — Residents in the states hit by Hurricane Helene who had coverage through the federal flood insurance program but let it lapse before the storm hit may be able to renew it and still be covered from the...
Oct 10 2024 // Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday night, centered near Sarasota as a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, a less-powerful storm than had been feared but one that brought some storm surge,...
Oct 10 2024 // Amwins and Floodbase have launched a municipal flood insurance program designed to insure California municipalities against previously uncovered losses due to atmospheric river flooding.The flood program closes the...
Oct 9 2024 // Even before the second megastorm in as many weeks brings devastating floodwaters to the Southeast US, it’s already clear that federal flood-risk maps underpinning decisions by millions of American homeowners and...
Oct 8 2024 // For the second time in two weeks, Tampa General Hospital is getting ready to keep water at bay. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall Wednesday and will test the hospital’s flood barrier.It takes dozens of...
Oct 8 2024 // The head of one of the largest private flood insurance writers this week questioned an AM Best report that said private flood companies are failing to make significant inroads in America’s troubled flood...
Oct 7 2024 // When Hurricane Helene barreled ashore last week, it caused devastating flooding across the southeastern U.S., including in the Shore Acres area of St. Petersburg, Florida. The neighborhood saw 6 feet of storm surge, which...
Oct 7 2024 // It is likely that you have read recent headlines sounding the alarm over a potentially uninsurable future. The ongoing threat of more frequent and damaging extreme weather is making it increasingly difficult for homeowners...
Oct 4 2024 // HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Helene dumped trillions of gallons of water hundreds of miles inland, devastating communities nestled in mountains far from the threat of storm surge or sea level rise. But that...
Oct 3 2024 // A Tennessee plastics factory kept workers going until it was too late to evacuate before Hurricane Helene flooding swamped the building, employees have said. Now, the company is likely facing liability lawsuits and...
Oct 3 2024 // As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing.Officials last week said...
Oct 3 2024 // Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finds that nearly one million houses and multifamily buildings in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut—one in 10 properties in the tri-state area—are at high risk of...