Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Some Flood Zones to Shift with New Lafayette Parish Flood Maps
Sep 26 2011 // A new flood map for Lafayette Parish could be completed by next year, the first update since 1996 for a document that affects insurance rates and the required elevation of new construction in flood zones. The Federal...
Mortgages At Risk If Flood Insurance Program Expires
Sep 26 2011 // The federal program that insures homes against flood damage expires next Friday and is at risk of not being renewed, even as an early fall storm threatens to inundate much of the northeastern United States yet...
Officials Urge Vermonters to Get Flood Insurance Before Sept. 30
Sep 23 2011 // In the wake of spring flooding and additional flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene, state and federal officials are encouraging Vermonters to sign up for federally-backed flood insurance before the end of the month,...
Flood Insurance Claim Deadlines Near in South Dakota
Sep 23 2011 // State and federal officials are cautioning South Dakota flood victims that time might be running out to file flood insurance claims. Normally, claims for flood damage under policies underwritten by the National Flood...
Marsh Advises Risk Managers As C-Suite Expectations Rise
Sep 22 2011 // Global insurance broker Marsh held a webcast on Sept. 21, where the firm’s analysts shared their views on the current business environment including the effects of Hurricane Irene and other catastrophes. The broker...
House Defeats Bill Funding Government; FEMA, Flood Insurance in Doubt
Sep 22 2011 // The House of Representatives unexpectedly defeated a bill that would fund the federal government [including the federal flood insurance program] past Sept. 30 Wednesday as dozens of Republicans broke with their party to...
Typhoon Roke Threatens Japan: AIR Report
Sep 21 2011 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide more than a million people were evacuated in central and western Japan in advance of Typhoon Roke’s arrival. The storm formed on September 10 and is the 15th named...
Vermont Businesses Plan ‘Floodstock’ to Aid Irene Recovery
Sep 20 2011 // A group of business owners in the Vermont town of Wilmington, devastated by Tropical Storm Irene, are going to raise recovery money with an event they’re calling “floodstock.” On Friday and Saturday eight...
President Obama Endorses House Flood Insurance Bill in Deficit Plan
Sep 20 2011 // President Barack Obama endorsed key elements of a U.S. flood insurance reform bill passed by the House in the tax and deficit plan he unveiled Monday, even as the reform has stalled in the Senate without a clear path...
Industry Expects Another Short-Term Extension for Flood Insurance Program
Sep 19 2011 // Congress is poised to pass yet another short-term extension of the federal flood insurance program, giving it more time to consider two competing bills reforming the debt-ridden program. The House could vote this Wednesday...
Corps Pegs 2011 Flood Damage to Levees at $2B
Sep 19 2011 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates it will cost more than $2 billion to repair the damage to the nation’s levees, dams and riverbanks caused by this year’s excessive flooding, a sum that dwarfs $150...
Corps Backs Missouri River Study
Sep 19 2011 // After months of sustained, historic Midwest flooding and criticism that the government bungled its management of the Missouri River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it has commissioned a study of its handling of the...
Customer Satisfaction with Home Insurers Improves, Says J.D. Powers
Sep 19 2011 // Customer satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies this year is up from 2010, but still remains below levels achieved in 2009. Overall satisfaction with homeowners insurance companies averages 769 in 2011 —...
Appeals Period Starts for Flood Maps in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish
Sep 16 2011 // Residents in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish have 90 days from Sept. 14 to file objections with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the parish’s new flood insurance rate maps. The Times reports that the maps...
Senate Will Consider Wind vs. Water Formula
Sep 16 2011 // Senate leaders have agreed to consider a provision designed to help settle wind versus water claims in a more timely and equitable manner as part of reauthorization of the federal flood insurance program. The...
County In Arizona Moves $2.5 Million to Flood Projects
Sep 14 2011 // The Mohave County Board of Supervisors in Arizona is looking ahead to flash floods and the destruction they can cause. On Monday the board handed out $4.8 million for flood-control projects in communities throughout Mohave...
Flood Insurance Has Paid $43 Million in Missouri River Floods
Sep 14 2011 // Federal flood insurance has already paid out $43 million to help policyholders deal with the damage caused by flooding along the Missouri River even though the floodwaters haven’t fully receded. The Federal Emergency...
Flood Maps Could Force Thousands in North Dakota to Buy Insurance
Sep 14 2011 // Fargo, N.D., city engineers say an additional 7,500 homeowners may be required to purchase federal flood insurance when new flood plain maps are released. The Federal Emergency Management Agency rate map will show homes...
During Floods, Mississippi River Tried to Carve New Path
Sep 13 2011 // Since the waters from this spring’s floods receded, officials have identified places where the Mississippi River tried to carve out new channels and change course. From northwest Tennessee to Louisiana, the...
RMS Estimates Irene Insured Losses At Up to $5.5 Billion
Sep 13 2011 // Hurricane Irene caused between $2.5 billion and $5.5 billion in insured losses in the United States and the Caribbean, excluding flood claims that fall under federal insurance programs, catastrophe modeling company RMS...
