Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Senate Bill Would Extend National Flood Insurance Program for 10 Years
Apr 28 2017 // U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have released draft legislation to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for 10 years. The NFIP is currently set to expire on Sept. 30,...
Floods Prompt State of Emergency in North Carolina
Apr 28 2017 // A North Carolina county declared a state of emergency Wednesday because flooding closed a number of roads and led to evacuations. Edgecombe County officials announced on Facebook that several roads are impassable and that...
North Carolina Storms Cause Flood Worries
Apr 27 2017 // People in North Carolina were paying attention to rising rivers on Tuesday after storms dumped several inches of rain across much of the state – the worst drenching since a damaging hurricane late last year. The...
Contract for Louisiana Flood Aid Program Administrator to Cost $227M
Apr 26 2017 // Louisiana’s contract with disaster recovery firm IEM to administer a homeowner flood aid program is estimated to cost $227 million. The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report says the state has completed its deal with...
Idaho City Assessing Flood Risks Prior to Federal Maps Release
Apr 26 2017 // Boise, Idaho officials have expressed concerns with federal maps that propose adding hundreds of acres to a flood plain in the city, which could increase the cost and difficulty of buying or developing nearby property. The...
Heavy Rains in South Carolina Cause Street Flooding, Power Outages
Apr 25 2017 // Heavy rains moving across South Carolina have left street flooding and scattered power outages. Duke Energy reported more than 2,500 customers without electricity Monday morning. Most of those were in Greenville County....
Wyoming Flood Preparations Follow Flood Predictions
Apr 21 2017 // Fremont County, Wyo. residents and disaster response officials are making preparations for spring flooding. Predictions are that the county could see its biggest runoff from the mountain snowpack in decades. National...
Idaho Governor Issues Warnings over Potential Flood Disasters
Apr 21 2017 // Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter says residents facing possible flooding in some areas of the state aren’t taking what he calls a potential disaster seriously. About a dozen state and federal officials at a...
Climate Change And The Nightmare Scenario for Florida’s Coastal Homeowners
Apr 20 2017 // On a predictably gorgeous South Florida afternoon, Coral Gables Mayor Jim Cason sat in his office overlooking the white-linen restaurants of this affluent seaside community and wondered when climate change would bring it...
Better Data, Models Expand Private Flood Insurance Opportunities: Actuaries
Apr 20 2017 // As Congress considers reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), it should take into account specific insurance market, technological advances and other developments in weighing its options, according...
Floodplain Changes Approved for North Carolina Beach Community
Apr 18 2017 // North Carolina’s floodplain mapping officials have approved an appeal of severe flood zone restrictions for a beach town, meaning property owners may save some money. The StarNews of Wilmington reports the N.C....
Managing Inland Flood Risk with Catastrophe Models
Apr 17 2017 // Flood risk is ubiquitous. In any given week, a storm with the potential to produce flooding is occurring somewhere in the United States. The transfer of flood risk from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to the...
$1.6B in Federal Aid Now Available for Louisiana Flood Recovery
Apr 12 2017 // After months of working through the federal bureaucracy, Louisiana has access to the $1.6 billion in federal aid earmarked by Congress for flood recovery. Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration says the U.S....
Costly Business Disruptor: Aging U.S. Infrastructure
Apr 12 2017 // When a train jumped the tracks this past week at New York’s Penn Station, the seemingly minor accident led to a cascade of exasperating delays for hundreds of thousands of commuters. When a flood forced authorities...
Michigan Hit with Flooding, Severe Thunderstorms
Apr 11 2017 // Flooding in southwestern Michigan closed several roadways and swamped the home of the Kalamazoo Growlers baseball team while severe thunderstorms caused damage in the Upper Peninsula. The Kalamazoo River is one of several...
Six Months Later, Hurricane Flood Victims Still Recovering in Virginia
Apr 11 2017 // In the months since Hurricane Matthew, Dawn Sawyer has watched her 9-year-old, Sam, bite his nails down to “nubs.” She’s never seen him do that before. As Sam remembers it, he slept right through the...
Louisiana Surveying Homeowners with 2016 Flood Damage
Apr 10 2017 // Homeowners with damage from last year’s devastating floods are being asked to take a survey, the first step in applying for federal disaster recovery aid that soon will be available. Gov. John Bel Edwards’...
River in Idaho Rising Along With Flood Insurance Policy Sales
Apr 10 2017 // Federal officials say the Boise River in Idaho that’s already past flood stage will be raised again as flood insurance sales spike in the region. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...
U.S. Weather in March to Cost Insurers More than $2 Billion: Aon
Apr 7 2017 // Four severe weather outbreaks in the U.S. throughout March led to extensive damage in the central and eastern parts of the country, costing the insurance industry in excess of US$2.0 billion, according to a report...
EU to Pay €60M to Britain for Repair of 2015-16 Flood Damage – Despite Brexit
Apr 5 2017 // Britain will get 60 million euros (51.3 million pounds) from the European Union to repair damage caused by the floods last year, a lawmaker said on Tuesday. Britain had asked for EU support to rebuild infrastructure...
