Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Heavy Rains and Flash Flooding Inundate Northeast Roads and Neighborhoods
Jul 15 2025 // Heavy rain swept across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday night, inundating sections of New York and New Jersey with flash flooding that stranded vehicles in roadways, closed subway lines and led to a declaration of a...
Tropical Rainstorm to Bring Flooding to Florida Peninsula and Gulf Coast
Jul 15 2025 // A tropical rainstorm is expected to bring flooding to the Florida Peninsula on Tuesday before making its way across the Gulf Coast and into Louisiana later in the week. The Florida Peninsula, coastal Alabama and...
Texas Department of Insurance Issues Guidance for Insurers Following Deadly Floods
Jul 15 2025 // The Texas Department of Insurance shared a bulletin on flooding disaster guidance in light of the deadly floods in the Texas Hill Country. The bulletin lays out expectations for how insurers, agents, contractors, adjusters...
Geography and Driving Behavior Contribute to High Flood Death Rates in Texas
Jul 15 2025 // Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwater into deadly deluges, according to a study...
FEMA Removed Several Camp Mystic Buildings From 100-Year Flood Map, Records Show
Jul 14 2025 // Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before...
4 Eastern Kentucky Communities Receive $14.4 Million for Flood Mitigation
Jul 14 2025 // Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear announced more than $14.4 million to improve water and wastewater infrastructure in four communities across the eastern part of the state that were hit by historic floods in 2022. The cities of...
Search for Victims Resumes in Texas Floods After Severe Weather Halts Operations
Jul 14 2025 // Crews on Monday were expected to resume looking for victims of catastrophic flooding in Texas that killed at least 132 people after more heavy rains temporarily paused their search and rescue operations. Those efforts...
FEMA Flood Maps Often Miss Flash Flood Risks, Leaving Homeowners Unprepared
Jul 14 2025 // Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can prepare for...
Flash Floods Once Again Hit Vermont, Damaging Homes and Roads
Jul 14 2025 // Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated...
Questions Linger on Response to Deadly Texas Flash Flood
Jul 11 2025 // Key questions remain unanswered about the actions Texas officials took both before and during the catastrophic July Fourth holiday floods as a painstaking search for victims continues along the Guadalupe River nearly a...
Farmers in Texas Face Severe Losses From Floods
Jul 11 2025 // Across a wide swath of Texas, the inundated rivers that ravaged communities also tore through farms and ranches. In the town of Bend, about two hours north of Austin, Boyd Clark waded into rising waters to help one of his...
New Mexico Village Rebuilds All Over Again After Record-Breaking Flash Flood
Jul 11 2025 // The mountain village of Ruidoso returned to the grim rituals of rebuilding after flash flooding and a deadly natural disaster, just one year after wildfire and intense flooding reshaped the popular vacation getaway and its...
Deadly History of Flooding in ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Along Guadalupe River
Jul 10 2025 // Cindy Manley was a summer camp counselor in 1987 when a different devastating flood scarred the Texas Hill Country. The Heart O’ the Hills camp is on the Guadalupe River, where a massive search continues for more...
What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover
Jul 10 2025 // Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their...
Texas Agencies Missed Opportunities to Fund Flood Warning System
Jul 10 2025 // Over the last decade, an array of Texas state and local agencies missed opportunities to fund a flood warning system intended to avert a disaster like the one that killed dozens of young campers and scores of others in...
Corps Revises Pearl River Flood Study in Mississippi, Sets New Comment Period
Jul 10 2025 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a revised study on potential flood controls for the part of the Pearl River that runs along Jackson, narrowing its focus to two proposals, and only one of them would resemble...
Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas
Jul 9 2025 // Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land known to be at high risk for a devastating flood. Nearly 1.3 million Texas homes are similarly situated in...
Focus on First Responders’ Mental Health Grows in Texas Flood Recovery
Jul 9 2025 // Riding on horseback through brush and over numerous dead turkeys, Margo Mellon spent Tuesday scanning the flood-ravaged ground of Texas’ Hill Country for dead bodies. As she and her rescue mates trudged through the...
House Swept Away as Flash Flooding Hits Mountain Village in New Mexico
Jul 9 2025 // At least three people were missing in a mountain village in southern New Mexico that is a popular summer retreat after monsoon rains triggered flash flooding Tuesday that was so intense an entire house was swept...
No Alerts Heard in Deadly Texas Flash Flood as 161 Still Missing
Jul 9 2025 // In the early hours of July 4, the only sound many of the vacationers along the banks of the Guadalupe River would have heard was pounding rain and thunder. They didn’t get any official warning of the rapidly rising...
