Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA OKs $29M for Detroit Residents Impacted by Flooding
Aug 6 2021 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has so far approved about $29 million in grants for Detroit residents whose homes and property suffered damage from heavy flooding during a late June storm. FEMA teams were in...
Ex-West Virginia Mayor Pleads Guilty to Stealing Flood Relief Funds
Aug 6 2021 // A former mayor in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to stealing federal relief funds meant to rebuild his city after a massive 2016 flood. Ex-Richwood Mayor Bob Henry Baber, 70, pleaded guilty Monday in Nicholas County...
HCI Group’s Home and Flood Insurtech TypTap Files for Possible IPO
Aug 5 2021 // HCI Group, Inc. announced that its insurtech subsidiary, TypTap Insurance Group, Inc., a Florida-based writer of private market homeowners and flood insurance, has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement...
New England Flash Flooding Leads to Home Rescues, Washed Out Roads
Aug 5 2021 // Heavy, continuous rain in parts of northern New England led to flash flooding, washed out roads and a few home rescues, authorities said. The latest rains come as what has been a soggy July in some parts of the region...
Insurtech Attracts $15.5M to Its Commercial, High Net Worth Flood Insurance Platform
Aug 3 2021 // Colorado-based reThought Insurance, a managing general agency focused on the flood insurance market, has secured $15.5 million in investment to accelerate its growth. The company currently writes flood coverage for complex...
Whitmer: Michigan to Provide $10M for People Impacted by June Floods
Aug 2 2021 // The state of Michigan will disburse $10 million in emergency relief funding to help Detroit-area and other southeastern Michigan residents whose homes, businesses and belongings were damaged by recent flooding caused by a...
New England Flash Flooding Leads to Home Rescues, Washed Out Roads
Aug 2 2021 // Heavy, continuous rain in parts of northern New England led to flash flooding, washed out roads and a few home rescues, authorities said. Police in Marlow, in southwestern New Hampshire, said four people and two animals...
Study Finds Boston’s Subway System Faces Severe Flood Threat
Jul 29 2021 // The Boston area’s subway system faces a severe threat from rising seas over the next 50 years that could cause flooding and cut critical links around the city, according to a new study. The report, written by...
Insured Losses from July Floods in Germany Could Approach $6B: AIR Worldwide
Jul 28 2021 // AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe modeling firm, estimates insured losses in Germany from July flooding could approach €5 billion ($6 billion). Low pressure system “Bernd” parked itself over central...
Trans-Siberian Railway Bridge Resumes Operations After Repair of Flood Damages
Jul 27 2021 // MOSCOW — Russia said on Tuesday it had fully restored train travel over a Trans-Siberian railway bridge in its far east that was damaged last week by floods. The world’s longest railway is a strategic transport...
Duke Energy Builds Flood Walls Around South Carolina Electric Substation
Jul 27 2021 // A utility is building walls around an electric substation to prevent them from being overrun by floodwaters in the first of its kind project in South Carolina. Duke Energy is spending $1.6 million on the Nichols project to...
Detroit Area Hit with Severe Storms, High Winds, Flooding
Jul 26 2021 // Thousands of utility customers in the Detroit area had no power on July 25 following a night of severe storms. DTE Energy reported nearly 135,000 customers in Oakland and Macomb counties had no service at 10:20 a.m. due to...
Woman Dead, 3 Missing Following Flooding in Colorado Burn Area
Jul 23 2021 // A woman was found dead and three other people were missing after rain triggered flooding and mudslides in an area of northern Colorado burned by a large wildfire last year, authorities said Wednesday. The woman’s...
Flooding Damages Bridge on Russia’s Trans-Siberian Railway, Blocking Traffic
Jul 23 2021 // MOSCOW – Flooding has damaged a bridge on Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway in its Far East, suspending traffic in the area, officials said on Friday, and President Vladimir Putin said full track repair would take...
Germany’s Floods Will See ‘Sizable’ Protection Gap. Could Insurance Demand Increase?
Jul 22 2021 // With an insured price tag of €4 billion to €5 billion (US$4.7 billion to $5.9 billion), economic losses from Germany’s recent floods are likely to be significantly higher, which highlights a sizable insurance...
Heavy Rains Cause Sewer Overflows, Flood Problems in Alabama
Jul 22 2021 // Heavy rains caused more than 430,000 of sewage overflows near Mobile, while another round of downpours prompted flash flood alerts in central Alabama. In Prichard, just north of Mobile, health officials told residents to...
Deadly Floods in China, Europe Send Stark Reminder of Climate Change Vulnerabilities
Jul 22 2021 // Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a stark reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe. At least 25 people in the central Chinese province of Henan...
China’s Henan Province Braces for More Rain After Severe Floods Kill at Least 33
Jul 22 2021 // China’s Henan province is bracing for more heavy rain after severe flooding that sparked large-scale evacuations left at least 33 dead, while minor disruptions to manufacturing and commodity production continued. The...
Update: China Province Deluged by 1,000-Year Flood, with Rising Death Toll
Jul 21 2021 // BEIJING – At least least 25 people have died in China’s flood-stricken central province of Henan, a dozen of them in a subway line in its capital Zhengzhou, and more rains are forecast for the region. About 100,000...
German Floods Will Be Expensive but Unlikely to Burn Through Insurers’ Earnings: Fitch
Jul 20 2021 // The recent severe floods in Germany could add up to 5 percentage points to German non-life insurers’ net combined ratios (net claims and expenses to net premiums), according to Fitch Ratings. The insured losses are...
