Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FEMA Extends Filing Deadline for Florida NFIP Claims from Hurricane Hermine
Oct 27 2016 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has extended the deadline for National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders to file claims from Hurricane Hermine. “After productive discussions between...
South Carolina’s 2 Extremes: Part of State Recovers From Flood, Other Part in Drought
Oct 26 2016 // As one part of South Carolina continues to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew, another area is suffering a drought. The Greenville News reports Upstate residents are being asked to conserve by limiting...
Couple Wanted in Louisiana Flood Contractor Fraud Scheme
Oct 26 2016 // Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, sheriff’s deputies say a man and a woman with numerous aliases are wanted in a flood contractor scheme that has taken more than $35,000 from two victims already in the Ponchatoula and...
Number of Flood Policies Sold in Iowa Dropping in Recent Years
Oct 25 2016 // The number of flood insurance policies sold in Iowa dropped 22 percent between 2011 and this year, but it’s hard to determine the reason for the decline. The Des Moines Register reported the number of policies fell...
S&P: Few North Carolina Residents Hit Hardest by Matthew Have Flood Insurance
Oct 25 2016 // With historic flood levels in North Carolina receding in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, preliminary estimates show that only a sliver of commercial and residential properties in areas most impacted by the storm are...
Damage to South Carolina Crops from Hurricane Matthew May Rival 2015 Flooding
Oct 24 2016 // South Carolina Department of Agriculture Commissioner Hugh Weathers says crops in some areas of the state may have sustained as much damage from Hurricane Matthew as they did from last year’s historic flooding. The...
Louisiana Governor’s Latest Federal Flood Request Aid Upped to $4B
Oct 24 2016 // Gov. John Bel Edwards bumped up his request to more than $4 billion for federal flood disaster aid to repair south Louisiana’s flood destruction, according to a letter to the White House released Friday. The...
North Carolina Recovery Continues More Than 2 Weeks After Matthew
Oct 24 2016 // More than two weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina, some areas are still flooded and others are beginning the long process of recovery. In North Carolina, the hurricane dumped more than a foot of rain 100 miles...
Typhoon Haima Hits China as Weaker Storm; AIR Worldwide Comments
Oct 21 2016 // Typhoon Haima made landfall in China after it brushed past Hong Kong, forcing the city’s stock exchange to cancel trading for the day and airlines to suspend flights. The Hong Kong Observatory said it will consider...
North Carolina Environmental Groups, Regulators Spar Over Coal Ash Spill
Oct 21 2016 // Conservationists and regulators are at odds over how much coal ash was swept away by flooding during Hurricane Matthew – state inspectors say it would fit in the bed of a pickup truck while a watchdog group argues...
University of Iowa Cites Copyright Law to Block Flood Video Use
Oct 21 2016 // University of Iowa is citing a copyright law to block the use of the university’s footage of a 2008 flood for an upcoming documentary. Doug Krejci, who is trying to gather materials for a documentary about eastern...
Travelers’ Q3 Results Hurt by Auto, Flood Claims
Oct 20 2016 // Travelers Cos., the sole property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, posted its fourth-straight profit decline as weather-related costs climbed and investment income slipped. The stock had the biggest...
Typhoon Haima Batters Philippines; Weakened Storm Heads to China
Oct 20 2016 // More than 90,000 people were evacuated after Typhoon Haima left vast areas of the Philippines flooded and without electricity as the strongest storm to hit the nation this year heads toward China. Haima, a Category 5 super...
Minor Flooding Follows Downpour in Nevada Wildfire Area
Oct 19 2016 // Fears of flooding are dissipating after rainfall helped quell a wind-whipped wildfire in Northern Nevada that destroyed 22 homes and 17 other structures in the Washoe Valley north of Carson City. Sierra Front Fire...
North Carolina Estimates $1.5B in Hurricane Damage to Buildings
Oct 17 2016 // North Carolina emergency officials have estimated that the destructive and deadly Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion worth of damage to more than 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings in the state. The...
FEMA Extends Deadline for Louisiana Flood Aid Applications to Nov. 14
Oct 17 2016 // People seeking disaster aid to help them recover from Louisiana’s catastrophic August flooding have an extra month to apply for assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced this week that the...
Floods from Matthew in Eastern North Carolina Called ‘Worse than Floyd’
Oct 17 2016 // Standing on the banks of the Neuse River this week, watching water creep ever-closer to the bottom of the King Street Bridge, crowds of people continually compared what was happening to what Hurricane Floyd wrought here 17...
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Extends Post-Flooding Emergency Rule
Oct 14 2016 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon has extended a previously issued emergency rule related to the historic flooding in multiple Louisiana counties in August. Emergency Rule 30 extends through Feb. 9, 2017, a...
Daily Flood Worries Put North Carolina Residents On Edge
Oct 14 2016 // Anita Van Beveren has been returning day after day to watch the brown floodwater creep toward the rental home she shares with her two teenage children. While she got many belongings out, they couldn’t move everything...
Hurricane Matthew May Be Gone, But Insurance Industry’s Work is Just Starting
Oct 14 2016 // It’s been nearly a week since Hurricane Matthew ravaged the Southeast coast but the insurance industry’s job of responding to the devastation and assessing the total cost of damage from the storm is just...
