Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Officials: Mississippi Flood Damage Most Widespread Since Hurricane Katrina
Mar 24 2016 // Mississippi officials say the damage from floods this month is the most widespread the state has had since Hurricane Katrina. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Director Lee Smithson tells The Clarion-Ledger federal...
Florida Insurer Launches Company Offering Admitted, Standalone Flood Coverage
Mar 23 2016 // A Florida-based homeowners insurer has beefed up its flood insurance offering with the launch of a new flood-coverage only company called TypTap. The new company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Homeowners Choice Property...
Southeast Texas Floods Bring Federal Disaster Declaration
Mar 22 2016 // President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in three Texas counties following severe storms including tornadoes and flooding earlier this month. The declaration covers Jasper, Newton and Orange counties in...
Severe Hail, Wind Storm Mississippi on Heels of Severe Floods
Mar 21 2016 // Hail and damaging thunderstorms raked southern parts of Mississippi on Thursday as people across the state tried to recover from flooding earlier in the week. The National Weather Service counted 44 hail reports in 15...
HOT Markets: Drones, Cyber and More
Mar 21 2016 // Looking for new sales and opportunities in 2016? Here are a few of the top market sectors that just might deliver hot opportunities for agents and brokers in the property/casualty insurance industry this year. Sky’s...
Flooded Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas to Remain Closed for Days
Mar 18 2016 // Highway officials say flooded Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas will stay closed through the weekend. Transportation officials closed the eastbound lanes early on March 15 as rising waters from excessive rains flooded the...
Iowa City $59M Flood Prevention Project in the Works
Mar 18 2016 // Iowa City is preparing to start work on a $59 million flood recovery and mitigation project. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that crews began removing trees last week in preparation for the Gateway Project, which was...
Penn. Hails House Committee Passage of Private Flood Insurance Bill
Mar 17 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller hailed a recent vote by the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee approving the Flood Insurance Market Parity and Modernization Act (H.R. 2901). Miller...
Rising Rivers, Bayous Force Texas Evacuations
Mar 17 2016 // Residents were evacuating their homes in Southeast Texas on March 15 as rivers swollen by days of heavy rain displaced thousands of people, forced the temporary closure of a major interstate and overwhelmed small towns...
Britain Raises Insurance Premium Tax to 10% to Fund Flood Defenses
Mar 16 2016 // Britain’s finance minister George Osborne said on Wednesday he would raise the tax on motor and home insurance premiums by 0.5 percentage points to 10 percent to fund flood defenses, boosting insurance shares as the...
Water Starting to Recede from Homes in North Louisiana
Mar 15 2016 // Emergency officials in Louisiana and Mississippi were watching the rise of the Pearl River that divides the two states on March 14 amid widespread flooding that has damaged thousands of homes. In north Louisiana, the water...
Major Storm System Causes Widespread Flooding in Mississippi
Mar 14 2016 // As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she...
Denied Federal Flood Help, Oklahoma Governor Appeals
Mar 14 2016 // Gov. Mary Fallin is appealing the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s denial of individual assistance for residents and businesses in nine eastern Oklahoma counties hit by a winter storm. The storm began Dec. 26...
Louisiana Lashed by Severe Weather, Flooding
Mar 14 2016 // Recent torrential rains that pounded Louisiana left roads impassable, submerging cars and forcing people from their homes overnight. The Bossier City area across the Red River from Shreveport took the brunt of the storm...
Storm System Dumps Heavy Rain on South Central States, More Expected
Mar 10 2016 // A large storm system has drenched areas in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas that were already inundated with heavy rainfall this week. Two people have drowned in Oklahoma and Texas. Nearly a foot of rain fell over parts of...
Below Average Chance of Spring Floods in Maine This Year
Mar 8 2016 // The Maine River Flow Advisory Commission says there is a below average chance of flooding this spring in most of the state, with the exception of the northern reaches. The commission says the chance of flooding in northern...
El Niño Wreaks Havoc in February with Fiji Cyclone, Floods & Drought: Aon Report
Mar 8 2016 // The Southern Hemisphere registered its strongest tropical cyclone on record during February with Tropical Cyclone Winston, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. With...
NWS: North Dakota Spring Snowmelt Flood Risk ‘Very Low’
Mar 7 2016 // The National Weather Service says the risk of noticeable flooding across North Dakota continues to drop. An updated report shows that the threat of significant and impactful snowmelt flooding is “very low” and...
Record Number of Flood Policies Bought by Californians, FEMA Says
Mar 7 2016 // Federal emergency officials in late February reported a surge in the number of California residents who have purchased flood insurance, most likely in response to a rainy El Niño winter. Officials with the Federal...
PERILS Reduces Loss Estimate to £662M for Floods from UK’s Storm Desmond
Mar 4 2016 // PERILS AG disclosed its second, revised loss estimate for the floods which hit the UK from Dec. 4 to 24 following Storm Desmond. The latest estimate of the property insurance market loss is £662 million (933.2 million),...
