Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Lloyd’s Index Shows $92B at Risk in North American Cities Each Year
Jun 6 2018 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Cities in the U.S. and Canada stand to lose $92.96 billion per year to risks like market crash, cyber attack and flood, an index from Lloyd’s released today shows. Lloyd’s newly...
Flood Emergency Declared in 8 West Virginia Counties
Jun 5 2018 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has declared a state of emergency in eight counties for flooding from heavy rains. The governor’s office said in a news release that some emergency evacuations were underway Sunday...
North Carolina Farmers Begin Tallying Flood Losses from Alberto
Jun 4 2018 // Farmers in western North Carolina are adding up their losses after the heavy rains from Subtropical Storm Alberto. Hendersonville farmer Randy Edmundson thinks about 70 of his 110 acres (44 hectares) are under water after...
Houston Still Rebuilding From Last Year’s Floods as 2018 Hurricane Season Arrives
Jun 4 2018 // In an empty lot where Vincent Shields’ Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out after Hurricane Harvey inundated the region last summer. “On this street there’s...
Jury: City Must Pay Indiana Couple $102K for Flood Damage
Jun 4 2018 // A jury has ordered a northern Indiana city to pay a couple more than $102,000 for flood damage their home suffered nearly a decade ago. Richard and Janet Brown sued the city of Valparaiso after 18 inches of floodwater...
County Seeks Input Before Houston-Area Flood Control Bond Vote
Jun 1 2018 // Officials in the Texas county hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey announced they will seek the public’s input before finalizing a list of critical flood-control projects voters will be asked to approve during an...
Body Found of Man Who Disappeared Amid Maryland Flooding
Jun 1 2018 // Searchers scouring a river alongside an historic Maryland town ripped apart by flash flooding found the body of a man last seen being swept away by the raging waters as it gutted shops and pushed parked cars into swollen...
What the Florida Industry Needs to Know for the 2018 Hurricane Season
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
After Pair of 1-in-1000 Year Floods, a Maryland Town Seeks Safeguards
May 31 2018 // The deadly flash flood that devastated a Maryland town’s historic center in July 2016 was dubbed a 1-in-1000 year event. Less than two years later, an even more treacherous flood ravaged the town, gutting shops and...
People, Organizations Working Together to Hurricane-Proof Houston-Area Community
May 30 2018 // The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, working in collaboration with area residents, the Clear Lake City Water Authority, or CLCWA, and Exploration Green Conservancy, have been collaborating to transform an...
Flooding Worries Grip New Orleans as Hurricane Season Nears
May 29 2018 // Dr. Lauren Morris’s dental office is in sight of one of the pumping stations designed to push water out of New Orleans. But despite that proximity, the roughly year-old business has already flooded. Now with the June...
Jury Orders City to Pay Indiana Couple $102K for Flood Damage
May 29 2018 // A jury has ordered a northern Indiana city to pay a couple more than $102,000 for flood damage their home suffered nearly a decade ago. Richard and Janet Brown sued the city of Valparaiso after 18 inches of floodwater...
With a Roar, Flash Flood Smashes Into a Maryland Community
May 29 2018 // Roaring flash floods struck a Maryland city Sunday that had been wracked by similar devastation two years ago, its main street turned into a raging river that reached the first floor of some buildings and swept away parked...
Maryland’s Frederick County to Conduct Flood Damage Survey
May 24 2018 // A western Maryland county hit hard by flooding last week is surveying residents and businesses to get a handle on the extent of the damage. Frederick County announced Saturday that the survey will help determine whether...
Flash Floods Prompt State of Emergency in 2 West Virginia Counties
May 22 2018 // Two counties in West Virginia have declared a state of emergency over flash-flood risks in the area. The Journal of Martinsburg reports the declaration in Jefferson and Berkeley counties comes after four days of torrential...
New Jersey Reminds Residents, Insurance Companies to Prepare for Hurricane Season
May 22 2018 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance is urging the insurance and banking companies it regulates, as well as New Jersey residents, to prepare now for hurricane season, which officially begins June 1. All...
7 Questions to Consider When Selling Flood Insurance
May 21 2018 // Any agent who has used the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in the past to deliver flood insurance to clients knows all too well that trying to simplify the complexities of flood insurance in the midst of program...
Delaware DOI Working With FEMA to Fine-Tune Disaster Response
May 21 2018 // The Delaware Department of Insurance (DOI) has worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of a National Level Exercise designed to help FEMA and other federal partners, state and local governments,...
Flooding from Montana River Receding, But is Expected to Rise Again
May 16 2018 // Montana’s Clark Fork River near Missoula is receding after it crested at the highest level in a century and swept trees, trailers and other dangerous debris downstream. Residents aren’t out of danger yet. The...
Aon’s April Catastrophe Report: Storms Deal Blow in U.S.; Floods Take 78 Lives in Africa
May 10 2018 // During April, five separate storm systems caused severe thunderstorms across the United States, the strongest of which affected the Plains, Midwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast, with nearly 70 tornado...
