Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
County Officials in Texas Race to Build $5M Warning System Before Next Flood Season
Dec 19 2025 // With the next Texas flood season just months away, Kerr County officials say they’re in a race to build a long-planned flood warning system estimated to cost up to $5 million — and they’re depending on the...
Poorer Americans Dropped Federal Flood Insurance When Rates Rose
Dec 17 2025 // When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to align premiums with...
US House Bill Aims to End Private Flood Insurance Coverage Penalty
Dec 16 2025 // Homeowners required to purchase flood insurance can utilize private flood policies, under federal rules that took effect in 2019. But if they go that route, the property owners risk losing lower, grandfathered premiums if...
Washington Commissioner Issues Letter to Insurers Outlining Post-Flood Expectations
Dec 16 2025 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer issued guidance for flood survivors and the insurance companies and adjusters handling their claims following the evacuation of thousands of Western Washington residents from...
Pacific Northwest Braces for Even More Flooding Rain This Week
Dec 15 2025 // Washington and the Pacific Northwest are facing multiple rounds of torrential downpours this week, raising flood risks in the region as residents are still grappling with last week’s historic rains. Heavy rain was...
Deadliest Morocco Flooding in Two Decades Leaves Dozens Dead
Dec 15 2025 // Flash flooding left at least 37 people dead in a city on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, the North African country’s deadliest such incident in more than two decades. Search and rescue operations remained underway in...
Washington Faces Historic Floods That Have Washed Away Homes, Stranded Families
Dec 12 2025 // Days of torrential rain in Washington state caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped at least two homes from their foundations, and experts warned that even more...
Floods, Falling Rocks Force Closure of Major Highways to Vancouver
Dec 12 2025 // Most major Canadian highways to the Pacific port city of Vancouver have been shut due to floods, falling rocks and the risk of avalanches, local authorities said on Thursday. “This situation is evolving and very...
Climate Change Supercharged Deadly Asia Floods, Study Finds
Dec 12 2025 // Climate change supercharged devastating floods that killed more than 1,600 people across parts of South and Southeast Asia, according to new research. A trio of tropical cyclones battered the region from Sri Lanka to...
Is a Mass. Auto Insurer Allowed to Refuse to Offer Coverage Due to Flood Warning?
Dec 10 2025 // Can an auto insurer in Massachusetts refuse to offer collision and comprehensive coverages during a flood warning despite a state law that makes it mandatory to offer such coverages? The industry and public are on the road...
Zillow Deleting Home Climate Risk Scores Reveals Limits of Flood, Fire Data
Dec 10 2025 // When Zillow Group Inc. removed climate risk scores from its home listings last month, following a complaint from the real estate industry, many observers took to the press and social media to warn that disappearing the...
Atmospheric River to Flood Pacific Northwest Through Week
Dec 8 2025 // A massive Pacific storm called an atmospheric river will sweep off the ocean into the Pacific Northwest starting Monday, bringing heavy rain and a week of floods, swollen rivers and even heavy snow across the region,...
Indonesia Expects $3 Billion Rebuild After Deadly Floods
Dec 8 2025 // Indonesia will need 51.8 trillion rupiah ($3.2 billion) to rebuild areas devastated by recent floods and landslides in Sumatra, according to the national disaster agency. More than 900 people have died as a result of...
Texas’ Camp Mystic Announces New Safety Upgrades Following Tragic Flood
Dec 4 2025 // The owners of an all-girls summer camp in the Texas Hill Country, where 25 campers and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic July 4 flooding, announced plans on Tuesday for new safety upgrades that will be in place...
Deadly Floods’ $20 Billion Toll Shows Asia’s Rising Climate Risk
Dec 4 2025 // Devastating floods have killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late last month across parts of South and Southeast Asia, underscoring the increasing risks from climate change and...
Texas Lawmakers Criticize Local Leaders for Rejecting Flood Warning System Funding
Dec 3 2025 // Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted...
Flood Quotes Aims to Make it Easier for Agents to Compare Premiums and Bind Policies
Dec 3 2025 // A new flood insurance quoting platform aims to streamline the process for insurance agents and brokers, providing real-time quotes from federal and private insurers all in one place. Flood Quotes is owned by National Flood...
Thailand’s Record Floods Paralyze Key Hubs for Tech and Car Parts
Dec 2 2025 // Thailand said floods that have devastated much of the country’s south have “paralyzed” the flow of high tech components and car parts to neighboring Malaysia, potentially benefiting rival exporters in...
Families of Camp Mystic Flood Victims Allege Negligence in Lawsuit
Dec 1 2025 // The operators of Camp Mystic in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding on July 4, failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached,...
West Texas County Struggles to Secure Funding for Flood Prevention
Nov 26 2025 // When it rains here, West Texans brace for the worst. With nowhere to go, water collects across sidewalks, roads and highways — the flat, desert landscape becomes a wetland in the blink of an eye. Local officials in Ector...
