Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Southern Germany Floods to Cost Insurers $2.6 Billion-$3.9 Billion: Verisk
Jun 20 2024 // Estimated insured losses from flooding, which hit Southern Germany on May 15-June 5, will range from €2.4 billion (US$2.6 billion) to €3.6 billion (US$3.9 billion), according to Verisk, the data analytics and...
Survey: Most Homeowners Believe Their Policy Covers Flood
Jun 20 2024 // Most U.S. homeowners don’t know the policy covering their home doesn’t cover flooding, a new survey shows. Respondents in a survey out this week from Trusted Choice, a group representing the members of the...
Tropical Storm Alberto to Bring Flooding to Coastal South Texas
Jun 19 2024 // Tropical storm Alberto has caused flooding and more than three feet of storm surge in parts of coastal south Texas but is not expected to strengthen to hurricane force, meteorologists say. Alberto is the first named storm...
For Shrinking Mississippi River Towns, Frequent Floods Worsen Fortunes
Jun 14 2024 // WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Devastating flooding, driven in part by climate change, is taking an especially damaging toll on communities that once thrived along the banks of America’s most storied river. Flooding has...
Insured Flood Losses in Germany Could Range From US$2.1B to US$3.2B: Moody’s RMS
Jun 14 2024 // Insured losses from floods that hit Central Europe between Thursday, May 30 and Monday, June 3 will likely fall within the range of €2 billion to €3 billion (US$2.1 billion to US$3.2 billion), according to...
Mississippi River Flooding is Pushing People Out of Their Homes, Data Shows
Jun 12 2024 // WEST ALTON, Mo. (AP) — Commerce along the Mississippi River has evolved over the past century at the expense of many once-thriving river towns. But persistent and sometimes devastating flooding has added to the woes of...
Paper Links Social Learning and Flood Insurance Uptake
Jun 11 2024 // Short but severe flooding that followed hurricanes Harvey and Irma in 2017 triggered a nationwide increase in flood insurance take-up driven by a county’s social network proximity to flooded areas, says a new...
Austin Flood Mitigation Makes Residents Eligible for 25% Insurance Discount
Jun 10 2024 // Austin residents can now receive up to a 25% discount on their flood insurance thanks to the city’s upgraded Community Rating System score from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Last month, FEMA...
Climate Change Made Deadly Brazil Floods Twice As Likely, Study Finds
Jun 5 2024 // Greenhouse gases produced by human activity made the recent deadly flooding in Brazil twice as likely as it would have been in the preindustrial era, according to a rapid analysis of the event by World Weather Attribution...
Insurers Expect Major Loss Event From Floods in Southern Germany
Jun 4 2024 // Insurers are preparing for an above-average loss event as a result of floods in southern Germany. “The pictures from Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg foreshadow the worst. Our companies are already receiving many...
Scholz to Visit Southern German Region Battling Severe Flooding
Jun 3 2024 // Southern Germany continues to battle flooding from heavy rainfall that’s disrupted transportation and pushed emergency services to their limits. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who plans to visit some of the affected regions...
More Than 5 Million Texans Live in Flood-Prone Areas According to State Flood Plan
May 29 2024 // More than 5 million Texans, or one in six people in the state, live or work in an area susceptible to flooding, according to a draft of the state’s first-ever flood plan. The plan by the Texas Water Development Board...
Brooklyn Zoo Re-Opening May 25 After Being Closed for 239 Days Due to Flood Damage
May 24 2024 // The Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, New York City is re-opening to the public on Saturday, May 25, after being closed for almost eight months due to extensive flood damage to its facilities and infrastructure. The flooding...
Plans to Spend Billions on a Flood-Prone East Texas Highway May Not Solve the Problem
May 23 2024 // LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Highway 59, a major evacuation route from Houston, has been a problem for East Texas for decades. And as flooding rivaling that of Hurricane Harvey inundated the region in April, the highway...
Texas Braces for More Heat, Storms and Floods: Weather Watch
May 23 2024 // Parts of the central US stretching from North Dakota to northern Texas, including Dallas, face an enhanced risk from severe thunderstorms, strong wind, hail and possibly tornadoes on Thursday, the US Storm Prediction...
These Texans Aren’t Taking Buyouts Despite Repeated Floods
May 21 2024 // HARRIS COUNTY — After the floodwaters earlier this month just about swallowed two of the six homes that 60-year-old Tom Madigan owns on the San Jacinto River, he didn’t think twice about whether to fix them. He...
Flood-Prone Houston Faces a Deluge of More Rain: Weather Watch
May 16 2024 // Heavy rain will sweep across eastern Texas into Louisiana and Mississippi on Thursday, raising flood risks across the Gulf of Mexico states. Flood watches have been posted from Dallas and Houston eastward across Louisiana...
Brazil Braces for More Rain as Historic Flood Damages Mount
May 13 2024 // The south of Brazil is preparing for the arrival of new rains and colder temperatures that threaten to deepen a crisis created by the historic floods that have deluged the region. As much as 300 millimeters (11.8 inches)...
Markets/Coverages: FloodFlash Launches New Parametric Auto Dealer Program
May 10 2024 // FloodFlash has added a dealer program in its efforts to support more U.S. businesses ahead of a hurricane season that is widely anticipated to be amongst the worst in recent memory. Stored on large, flat areas of often...
Brazilian Floods Are Inflicting Billions in Economic Devastation
May 9 2024 // The floods and severe rainfall that ravaged Southern Brazil are hurting the nation’s powerhouse agricultural sector, with industries from auto manufacturing to banking and insurance also bracing for disruption. Heavy...
