Most Popular Flood Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Flood Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Coverage Needed: Hundreds of Thousands in SE Now in Flood Zones With New Maps
Jun 24 2024 // Many more properties, including hundreds of thousands of homes across Florida and other parts of the Southeast, will be required to purchase flood insurance after July 31, due to revisions in federal flood maps. For some...
#2 Florida Citizens Posts Info on New Flood Insurance Requirements
Aug 24 2023 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s residual but still-largest property insurer, has posted new information about when and where flood insurance is required for policyholders. The Florida Legislature last...
#3 FEMA: SW Florida Stripped of Flood Insurance Discounts After ‘Improper Rebuilds’
Apr 1 2024 // After spiking premiums, nonrenewals and complaints about unpaid claims, more than 115,000 property owners in southwest Florida are now facing a new slap in the face after 2022’s Hurricane Ian: 25% higher flood...
#4 Dubai Floods Expose Weaknesses to a Rapidly Changing Climate
Apr 23 2024 // The heavy rains that flooded Dubai last week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be...
#5 Here’s Why Experts Don’t Think Cloud Seeding Caused Dubai Flooding
Apr 26 2024 // With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is...
#6 Insureds Hot About Flood Insurance Costs? Some Areas Are Seeing 35% Discounts
Aug 22 2023 // Florida property owners stuck with higher premiums and new flood insurance mandates may want to nudge their local governments to take a look at the town of Cutler Bay and the counties of Monroe, Pinellas and Ocala. Those...
#7 Map Tool Gives Grim Look at Sea Level and Flood Impact on Coastal Areas
Jul 24 2023 // Many of the lowest-lying coastal areas of the Southeastern United States, including some heavily populated parts of Florida, will be subject to increased annual flooding in less than 30 years, according to scenarios mapped...
#8 Florida Bills Would Provide Millions in Flood Mitigation, Elevation Grants
Jan 8 2024 // Florida’s wind-mitigation grant program for homeowners has proven to be so popular that the governor has proposed another $107 million for it this year, and some experts have called home fortification the only way to...
#9 Europe Is Being Scorched and Flooded by Growing Climate Extremes
Apr 22 2024 // The European Union endured its joint-hottest year on record in 2023, according to new scientific analysis, pointing to a more perilous future for what is already the world’s fastest-warming continent. Europe...
#10 California May Face Major Flooding From Jan. 30: Weather Watch
Jan 23 2024 // The odds are rising that California and the West will be struck by a plume of moisture known as an atmospheric river from Jan. 30 to Feb. 3, the US Climate Prediction Center said in a social media post. The agency said...
#11 Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers
May 3 2024 // Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats. The company, which did...
#12 Insured Losses from Recent South Florida Floods Reaching into the Millions
Jun 21 2024 // Recent flooding in south Florida caused insured losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, from auto and homeowners claims, Aon and AM Best reported. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is also reminding...
#13 Marsh McLennan Asks Court to Revisit Data Breach Ruling to Avoid Flood of Litigation
Sep 28 2023 // Marsh McLennan wants the Second Circuit appeals court to reconsider its August decision that overruled a district court and reinstated a former employee’s lawsuit against the company over a 2021 data breach. Marsh...
#14 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...
#15 Dubai’s Record Rain Floods Expensive Homes and Halts Flights
Apr 18 2024 // Dubai flights have been severely disrupted and cars were left stranded on flooded roads after record rainfall over the past day brought the city to a standstill. The United Arab Emirates experienced its heaviest downpour...
#16 Floodwaters Inundate Midwest, Where Flood Insurance is Rarely In Force
Jun 26 2024 // Floodwaters damaged hundreds of properties this week across parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota as the Midwest recovers from days of intense rainfall. Three days of torrential downpours resulted in as much...
#17 Private Flood Insurers See Opportunity as NFIP Increases Rates
Aug 21 2023 // While the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rolls out a new rating program generating premium increases for many policyholders, the private flood insurance market has seized the opportunity to grow its market share...
#18 Temporary Fix Keeps National Flood Insurance Operating but Only Until Nov. 17
Oct 2 2023 // Real estate interests and insurance companies that administer National Flood Insurance Program policies are heaving a sigh of relief after Congress approved a last-minute deal to temporarily fund the federal government,...
#19 Southeast Seas Rising Faster Than Other Regions, ‘Turbocharging’ Floods, Report Finds
May 2 2024 // From the Rio Grande to the Outer Banks, sea levels are rising faster than most other parts of the world, blocking the outflow of rivers and streams and causing inland flooding that would not have been seen just a few years...
#20 UK’s Second Biggest Mortgage Lender Pulls Offers Over Flood Risk
Apr 30 2024 // The UK’s second biggest mortgage provider has stopped making loans on homes at risk of flooding, over fears they may become uninsurable — and therefore, unsellable — over the coming years. Nationwide Building...
