Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
UK’s Flood Re Appoints Capita as Managing Agent
Feb 12 2015 // The UK’s Flood Re has announced the appointment of Capita as its Managing Agent, following what it described as a “detailed and rigorous public procurement process for a five year contract that led to a number...
Louisiana Senator Accuses President of ‘Meddling’ with Floodplain Standards
Feb 9 2015 // U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a Republican from Louisiana, says a climate action plan set forth by President Barak Obama would drastically change floodplain maps and result in increased flood insurance rates. Vitter is chairman...
UK Climate Agency Faults Flood Re’s Costs as ‘Higher than Necessary’
Feb 5 2015 // In a letter to Brendan McCafferty, the Chief Executive of the UK’s recently established flood insurance program, Subcommittee Chairman, Prof. Lord Krebs, wrote that the UK’s Committee on Climate Change (CCC)...
Army Corps Releases Northeast Coastal Flood Risk Management Framework
Jan 30 2015 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday issued a report saying that managing the flooding risk along the North Atlantic coast from events like Superstorm Sandy is something that has to be done collaboratively by all...
AIR Worldwide Reports on This Week’s Northeast Blizzard
Jan 29 2015 // A blizzard in the Northeast this week primarily impacted eastern Long Island in New York, southeastern Connecticut, Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod and the islands, New Hampshire, and Maine, with record...
Sandy Flood Insurance Issues Said to Be Focus of Criminal Probe
Jan 25 2015 // New York’s attorney general has opened a criminal probe into accusations by Hurricane Sandy victims that insurance companies rejected claims for flood damage to their properties based on falsified engineering...
FEMA Agrees to Fargo, North Dakota, Flood Insurance Basement Exemption
Jan 25 2015 // Fargo, N.D’s acting mayor says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has moved to continue to allow homeowners to have basements in the city’s new floodplain. FEMA is responsible for the National Home...
ABI Launches Campaign for ‘Flood Free’ Homes
Jan 21 2015 // the Association of British Insurers announced that it has launched a campaign for Flood Free Homes, “supported by Friends of the Earth, Know Your Flood Risk, National Flood Forum, and the Property Care...
Lowest Insured Losses since 2009: Impact Forecasting Climate and Cat Report
Jan 13 2015 // Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, has released its Annual Global Climate and Catastrophe Report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events that occurred worldwide...
Natural Disasters in 2014
Jan 12 2015 // All in all, 2014 was not as bad as it could have been for natural disasters in the United States. Last year closed with fewer tornadoes, a mild hurricane season, lower acreage lost to wildfires, and an overall decline in...
Court Nixes Grand Ole Opry Appeal Over Flood Damage
Jan 8 2015 // A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood damage at the Grand Ole Opry in 2010. The Tennessean reports...
Flood-Control Canal-Widening Completed in Southern Louisiana
Jan 6 2015 // A project to help reduce flooding in much of northern Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana is finished. Officials expected to pay more than $1 million to clean and widen a major drainage canal in Gray. The job came in about...
$7M in Flood Money Being Waited on by Nebraska Cities
Dec 31 2014 // Nebraska cities along the Missouri River are still waiting for nearly $7.2 million in reimbursement from state and federal agencies, more than three years after extensive flooding. Five cities have yet to receive payments...
Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka Hit by Heavy Rains, Floods: AIR
Dec 30 2014 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, the rains of the past week across Southeast Asia have been much higher than average, even for a period during which Southeast Asian countries normally experience heavy...
Looking Back to 2014, Ahead to 2015 at Natural Disaster Activity
Dec 29 2014 // Fewer tornadoes, a mild hurricane season, lower acreage lost to wildfires, overall less flood and other damage— all in all, 2014 was not as bad as it could have been for natural disasters in the U.S. That’s...
The Two Year Reduction in Natural Hazard Damage: A Long-Term Trend?
Dec 29 2014 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Natural hazards continue to pose a significant risk to properties in the United States and abroad. As we near the close of 2014, it is important to take time to...
Malaysian Floods Force Evacuation of 200,000 People; at Least 10 Dead
Dec 29 2014 // Malaysia evacuated more than 200,000 people and increased relief efforts as the worst floods in decades left at least 10 people dead. Parts of Thailand and Sri Lanka have also been inundated. The affected states are...
Insurers Dogged by Claims of Slanted Sandy Reports
Dec 28 2014 // When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, flood insurance companies working for the Federal Emergency Management Agency dispatched an army of structural engineers to do some detective work. Their assignment: Find out how...
Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Redesign Grand River Floodwalls
Dec 23 2014 // Grand Rapids, Mich., is redesigning its flood protection system along the Grand River after years of resistance to calls by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to boost floodwalls. The Grand Rapids Press reports the...
Prison Sites at Salt Lake City Could Get Hit By Tsunami
Dec 23 2014 // The ground shakes violently and then a wall of salty, brine-shrimp-laden water crashes into the Utah State Prison. The cells of the state’s most dangerous inmates start to flood. Panicked Corrections officers must...
