Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Flow Insurance, Chaucer Group to Offer Residential Flood Insurance
Sep 29 2021 // Flow Insurance Services has partnered with Chaucer Group to allow for the digital distribution of Chaucer’s new residential flood insurance product. Flow’s retail agents will have the ability to quote, bind,...
Senators From Gulf Coast States Seeking to Delay New Flood Insurance Rating System
Sep 29 2021 // U.S. senators from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas have introduced legislation to delay the roll out of new risk rating methodology from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) they say would result in flood...
New York City to Hire Forecaster, Beef Up Warnings After Ida Flooding
Sep 29 2021 // New York City is planning to hire a private weather forecaster, install more drainage features and issue earlier and more aggressive warnings to residents under a new plan to respond to heavy rainfall like the deadly...
New Jersey Weighs Expanding Flood Buyback Program After Ida
Sep 27 2021 // Liz Sawyer called Manville, New Jersey, home for more than two decades when Ida became the latest storm to send flood waters crashing into her house. For her and her family it will – she hopes – be the last...
After Northeast Flooding, Insurance Woes Swamp Residents
Sep 24 2021 // After being pummeled by two tropical storms that submerged basements, cracked home foundations and destroyed belongings, Northeastern U.S. residents still in the throes of recovery are being hit with another unexpected...
Flood Modeler JBA Collaborates With South African Broker, Reinsurance Solutions
Sep 24 2021 // JBA Risk Management Ltd. announced its collaboration with Reinsurance Solutions Intermediary Services (RSIS), an African-based reinsurance broker that will use the JBA global flood modeling capability to provide flood risk...
Private Flood Insurance Market Small But May Grow With New NFIP Rating: AM Best
Sep 23 2021 // The country’s flood insurance market is slowly transitioning toward private insurers providing additional options to the federal government’s program for those seeking coverage, according to a new AM Best...
‘Things Are Dire’: $16B Bay Flood Plan for Worst New Jersey Storms
Sep 23 2021 // Federal officials on Tuesday warned of a “dire” situation that is likely to get worse as they explained details of a $16 billion plan to lessen back bay flooding, one of the major sources of storm damage at the...
Questions on $16B Plan to Ease Back Bay Flooding at New Jersey Shore
Sep 22 2021 // A proposed $16 billion billion plan to address back bay flooding, one of the major sources of storm damage at the Jersey Shore, is raising concerns about where water would go during storms, whether barriers proposed as...
Alabama Heavy Rain, Flash Flooding Causes One Fatality
Sep 21 2021 // Authorities on Sunday found the body of a man whose vehicle was overtaken by water during flash flooding in Tuscaloosa the day before. A spokeswoman for the Tuscaloosa police, Stephanie Taylor, told Al.com that the...
Flooding Reported Around University of Alabama
Sep 20 2021 // Heavy rain has caused some flash flooding Saturday on parts of the University of Alabama campus. University officials tweeted information about various road closures because of flooding and have asked people to avoid...
Vermont Governor Seeking Disaster Assistance After Flooding
Sep 17 2021 // Vermont Governor Phil Scott asked the federal government to help Bennington and Windham counties recover from summer flooding. Scott said communities in the two southern Vermont counties suffered an estimated $4 million in...
FEMA: $205M Approved for Michigan Recovery From June Storms, Flooding
Sep 15 2021 // The federal government has approved nearly $205 million to help Michiganders with disaster-related needs stemming from the June 25-26 tornadoes, severe storms and flooding in Washtenaw and Wayne counties, FEMA says. That...
Insurance, Housing Groups Urge Renewal of Flood Program That Expires Sept. 30
Sep 15 2021 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, along with a large coalition of other insurance, lending and housing industry groups, is urging congressional leaders to avoid any lapse in National Flood Insurance...
University of New Hampshire Gets $1.8M to Study Road Damage from Coastal Flooding
Sep 15 2021 // The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to study how and why coastal hazards like excessive flooding are causing roads to crack and crumble. “We’re trying to better understand the...
Tropical Storm Nicholas Expected to Bring Flash Flooding to Deep South
Sep 14 2021 // Tropical Storm Nicholas is expected to produce life-threatening flash flooding to portions of the deep South through early Friday according to the National Hurricane Center. Nicholas was approximately 50 miles east of...
Flash Flooding Damages Cars in Atlanta
Sep 9 2021 // Flash flooding turned some streets into rivers and damaged some cars in the Atlanta suburbs. Crews worked overnight and into Wednesday morning to pull cars off of the streets after the flooding left them damaged, The...
Trinidad and Tobago Gets CCRIF Payment of $2.4M for August Heavy Rains, Flooding
Sep 7 2021 // The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility has made a payout of approximately US$2.4 million to the government of Trinidad and Tobago following a rainfall event that occurred during August 18-20, 2021. The heavy...
One Dead, One Unaccounted for After Maryland Apartment Complex Floods
Sep 3 2021 // The National Weather Service tentatively confirmed the touchdown of a tornado in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County early Wednesday afternoon as the remnants of Hurricane Ida moved across the state. Meteorologist Ray...
Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods
Sep 2 2021 // With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing flood risks may be put to the test this week. While coastal communities would seem to have...
