Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aon Benfield Monthly Report Highlights Increased Global Storm Activity
Aug 5 2011 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp., has released the latest edition of its Monthly Cat Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during...
Judge Tosses Suit Challenging FEMA Flood Mapping in Illinois
Aug 4 2011 // A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit three southwestern Illinois counties filed to block the U.S. government from declaring the region’s levees functionally useless. U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert called the...
Tropical Storm Emily on Path toward Haiti
Aug 4 2011 // Tropical Storm Emily brushed past Puerto Rico and set its sights on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, where more than 630,000 people are still without shelter after last year’s earthquake. A “steady shield of...
Federal Aid Approved for N.Y. Flood Victims
Aug 2 2011 // A Long Island congressman says 13 families who lost their homes in flooding more than a year ago will likely receive federal aid. Rep. Steve Bishop tells Newsday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency informed his...
Oregon Town Passes Bond Measure to Save on Flood Insurance
Aug 1 2011 // MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. _ The levee system along the Walla Walla River is badly in need of repair in one Eastern Oregon town, costing homeowners a flood insurance premium until the system is fixed. The U.S. Army Corps of...
One Year Later, Hard Times for Kentucky Flood Victims
Jul 26 2011 // Along a newly paved road at Harless Creek in Kentucky’s Pike County, dozens of new vehicles and a handful of new modular homes point to progress since severe flooding hit the area a year ago. At Raccoon Creek,...
Settlement Reached in Post-Katrina Patient Deaths
Jul 25 2011 // A New Orleans judge has approved a $25 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed over the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina. The deal was reached between Tenet Healthcare Corp.,...
AIR Expands Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Models to Central America
Jul 25 2011 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced the release of its Central America tropical cyclone model. “The new model covers Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and...
Disaster Money for Flood Victims in North Dakota Tops $50 Million
Jul 25 2011 // Officials say federal and state disaster assistance for victims of North Dakota flooding has gone over the $50 million mark. The money includes grants and low-interest loans. It has gone to residents in Barnes, Burleigh,...
Wyoming Flooding Designated Major Disaster
Jul 25 2011 // President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Wyoming because of spring and summer flooding, opening the way for the federal government to help the state pay for costs incurred from damaged roads, highways and...
Oklahoma Resident’s Protests Prompt Flood Map Change
Jul 25 2011 // Residents of Lake McAlester in Oklahoma are no longer in a Federal Emergency Management Area flood zone after an uncommon re-mapping of the area. “This is the only area in the state of Oklahoma that has been ever...
Missouri River Flood Protection Might Be Retained
Jul 22 2011 // Some Iowa officials say they’d like to keep in place temporary dikes, berms and levees that were hurriedly built to protect people and property from Missouri River floodwater. Woodbury County emergency management...
Council OKs Southwestern Illinois Levee Upgrades
Jul 22 2011 // The people who oversee 64 miles of aging Mississippi River levees in southwestern Illinois have signed off on a $151 million plan to upgrade the barriers perhaps by 2014. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the...
Expected Summer Floods Could Set Record
Jul 18 2011 // With rivers running above flood stage and soils saturated, forecasters have predicted the 2011 summer flooding season could rival the worst in U.S. history. In the “Great Flood of 1993,” record-breaking floods...
Floods and Flood Insurance
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Floods and Flood Insurance
Jul 18 2011 // While South Central states suffer from drought, the Midwest is paddling upstream against too much water and the flooding has once again put the spotlight on the National Flood Insurance Program with all its faults and...
Federal Bill Offers Break for Properties in Certain Flood Zones
Jul 15 2011 // Overseers of levees in southwestern Illinois welcomed the advance of a federal measure that could give thousands of property owners up to a five-year reprieve in having to buy costly flood insurance in areas with...
Flooding a $1 Billion Headache for North Dakota
Jul 15 2011 // The commander of the North Dakota National Guard says flood-related costs in the state are expected to top $1 billion. Maj. Gen. David Sprynczynatyk told state lawmakers that officials are prepared to handle the state...
Fidelity National Sells Flood Insurance Business
Jul 13 2011 // Title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc. has sold its flood insurance operations to WRM America Holdings LLC. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, WRM America of Uniondale, New York, will acquire 100 percent...
House Approves Flood Insurance Program Renewal, Reforms
Jul 13 2011 // The House of Representatives has approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the federal flood insurance program for five years and change some of its practices to improve its financial operations. The measure to renew and...
