Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Assurant to Pick Up Policies as Nationwide Exits Federal Flood Insurance Program
Apr 26 2016 // Nationwide will start winding down its status this May as a “Write Your Own” carrier within the federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program. Assurant said it formed an agreement with the insurer...
Remaining Flood-Displaced Houstonians Get Temporary Housing
Apr 25 2016 // Officials in Houston have closed the last of the city’s shelters and moved more than 150 families into temporary housing following the torrential rains that claimed eight lives and displaced thousands of people in...
250 Homes in South Carolina Still Need Work 6 Months After Floods
Apr 25 2016 // Leaders of nonprofit groups in Horry County, South Carolina, say that, six months after historic rains inundated South Carolina, volunteers are needed to help repair hundreds of homes in the county. The Sun News reports...
Flood Mapping Tools to Help Residents in South Dakota’s Big Sioux River Basin
Apr 24 2016 // The state of South Dakota is working on new online flood mapping tools for the Big Sioux River Basin. The Google maps-style program should allow cities, counties, developers and emergency managers to test the flooding...
Insurer Among Parties Arguing over Cause of Flooded Homes in Nebraska
Apr 24 2016 // The city of Bellevue, Neb., the Metropolitan Utilities District, a plumbing contractor and its insurance company disagree about who’s to blame for a ruptured water line that flooded about 12 homes in February. The...
‘100-Year Floods’ Happen More Often Than People Think
Apr 22 2016 // Eleven months ago, Houston had a deadly flood. This week, the city had another. Events like these are often called “100-year floods,” and that can be misleading. The U.S. government began using the term in the...
Florida Commissioner McCarty Saying Goodbye: ‘It’s Been a Labor of Love’
Apr 21 2016 // “It’s not for the faint of heart, I can tell you that… Anyone who comes in here and thinks it’s an easy job really does not have any idea what they’re getting into. But it’s been a...
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Seeks Extension of Flood Claim Deadline
Apr 19 2016 // Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to extend its deadline for Louisiana homeowners impacted by flooding, the insurance department announced. A federal disaster...
Texas Inundated as Storms Dump More than a Foot of Rain
Apr 18 2016 // A slow moving weather system has dumped up to 20 inches of rainfall west and northwest of Houston causing flooding and travel cancellations, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. Heavy rain primarily east of Austin has...
Proposed Restrictions Building in Oregon’s Flood Plains
Apr 18 2016 // Building in flood zones is about to get harder across much of Oregon, due to new federal recommendations. The government published the recommendations, called a biological opinion, in response to a lawsuit from...
Mississippi Granted $13.3M for Storm Recovery, More Counties Eligible for Aid
Apr 18 2016 // Mississippi’s disaster declaration due to the March flooding and severe storms has been extended to 13 additional counties. Gov. Phil Bryant said at the beginning of April that 11 counties were added, followed by two...
Florida Insurer Launches Company Offering Admitted, Standalone Flood Coverage
Apr 18 2016 // A Florida-based homeowners insurer has beefed up its flood insurance offering with the launch of a new flood-coverage only company called TypTap. The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Homeowners Choice Property...
Pennsylvania Issues Advisory on Appealing Flood Zone Designation
Apr 18 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a consumer alert telling homeowners about a process by which they can appeal their property’s placement in a flood zone by the federal government, which in...
Mayor: Many in New Orleans to See Lower Flood Insurance Costs
Apr 18 2016 // New federal maps show that New Orleans is much less vulnerable to flooding than it was before Hurricane Katrina struck more than 10 years ago. As a result, Mayor Mitch Landrieu says, half of the city’s properties...
San Antonio Area Hit with Grapefruit-Sized Hail, Flooding
Apr 14 2016 // Hail as big as grapefruits left behind broken windows and other storm damage in parts of South Texas Tuesday night. The National Weather Service says the San Antonio area has a chance for additional thunderstorms through...
The Nature Conservancy Looks to Address South Florida Climate, Catastrophe Risks
Apr 11 2016 // The Nature Conservancy has announced plans to work with catastrophe risk modeling firm RMS, as well as with the Global Disaster Preparedness Center and others, in an effort to address climate impacts in South Florida. The...
Louisiana Ag Losses from March Flooding Could Top $15M
Apr 10 2016 // The agricultural loss from the March flooding across Louisiana could top $15 million, according to an economist with the LSU AgCenter. Kurt Guidry said the loss figures are preliminary, because reports are coming in daily...
U.S. Storms in March Will Cost Insurers $2 Billion: Aon Benfield’s Cat Report
Apr 7 2016 // Insurers face a $2.0 billion bill following seven severe storm events across multiple states in March, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. Overall economic losses...
Penn. Issues Consumer Alert for Homeowners on Appealing Flood Maps
Apr 6 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller issued a consumer alert this week telling homeowners about a process by which they can appeal their property’s placement in a flood zone by the federal government,...
Some Louisiana Residents Dropped Flood Insurance, Now Regret It
Apr 5 2016 // Some Monroe, La., homeowners dropped flood insurance when they got the choice, and are now regretting it. Some homeowners in the area got notices from their mortgage company saying they were no longer required to buy flood...
