Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Commentary: As Flood Threat Grows, Florida Must Mandate Flood Risk Disclosure
Aug 14 2019 // The climate is changing, and it has become abundantly clear that Florida is going to be badly damaged in the decades ahead. With the state experiencing increasingly devastating effects of severe tropical weather and...
Disaster Declaration Granted to West Virginia for June Floods
Aug 14 2019 // President Donald Trump has granted a disaster declaration request for flooding in portions of West Virginia in late June. Gov. Jim Justice says in a news release five counties can receive federal assistance for public...
FEMA Awards $1.1M Mitigation Grant to Flood Zoned Homes on Georgia Coast
Aug 13 2019 // Twelve homes on the coast of Georgia will receive a federal grant of about $1.1 million to help alleviate the cost of elevating their homes. News outlets report Tybee Island Mayor Jason Buelterman and Rep. Buddy Carter...
Lack of FEMA Levee Approval Would Leave Southern Illinois Village at Risk
Aug 12 2019 // The fate of a Mississippi River levee that’s awaiting a decision on federal accreditation could put a southern Illinois village at risk of destructive flooding, the village president says. If the levee in Prairie du...
Property Loss Estimate for Australia’s Townsville Floods Rises to A$1.22B: PERILS
Aug 12 2019 // The property insurance market loss from the Australia’s Townsville floods, which affected northern Queensland, Australia, between Jan. 26 and Feb. 10, 2019, has risen to A$1.22 billion (US$827.1 million), according...
Hurricane Barry Cost Economy $600M, Insurers $300M: Aon Catastrophe Report
Aug 9 2019 // Total economic losses, largely flood-driven, were expected to exceed US$600 million, while public and private insurers paid out nearly US$300 million, said Aon in its latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap...
2 Years After Harvey, Houston Getting Initial Millions for Flood Control
Aug 5 2019 // Houston will receive more than $7 million in grants as initial funding for a pair of flood control projects nearly two years after rain from Hurricane Harvey swamped parts of the city. Mayor Sylvester Turner on Friday...
Northern Arizona Burn Map Reveals Erosion, Flooding Risks
Aug 5 2019 // Burn maps from a northern Arizona fire have revealed a risk for post-fire erosion and flooding in populated communities. The Arizona Daily Sun reports that the U.S. Forest Service published a burn severity map Wednesday...
Louisiana Flood Victims End Lawsuit Against Trump, HUD Over Disaster Aid
Aug 2 2019 // Two Louisiana homeowners who sued the Trump administration over federal policies that stalled grants for victims of a massive 2016 flood have dropped their lawsuit, after the administration recently released new...
Lloyd’s Selects 11 Insurtechs to Support Its Future-at-Lloyd’s Project
Aug 1 2019 // Lloyd’s welcomed 11 new teams of insurtech disruptors to join the re/insurance market’s innovation accelerator. More than 130 applications were received from across the world for the third cohort of the...
North Carolina Residents Hit by 2 Hurricanes Still Waiting on Long-Term Aid
Jul 31 2019 // The heating and air conditioning in Carrie Johnson’s home – damaged by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 – still wasn’t fixed when Hurricane Florence flooded her house last September. Now, her home of over 50 years...
Third Round of Flooding, Cleanup Takes Toll on Iowa Merchants
Jul 30 2019 // A third bout of flooding and cleanup is taking a toll on people who operate some small businesses along Iowa Highway 2 in southwestern Iowa. They heavily rely on north-south traffic from nearby Interstate 29 and on...
Challenges Facing the Florida Insurance Market: A Reinsurer’s Perspective
Jul 30 2019 // Hurricanes Irma and Michael served as a reminder that Florida, more than any other state, is at risk of one of the most intense natural perils, namely hurricanes. The existence of a stable insurance market providing its...
Post-Harvey Flood Mitigation Effort Ongoing in Dickinson, Texas
Jul 29 2019 // Crews are working to unclog tributaries and bayous snaking through Dickinson to reduce the risk of flooding nearly two years after Hurricane Harvey caused significant damage to the Houston suburb. The August 2017 storm...
After Flooding, Davenport, Iowa, Now Mulling Mississippi River Wall
Jul 29 2019 // Hundreds of communities line the Mississippi River on its 2,348-mile journey to the Gulf of Mexico, but Davenport, Iowa, stands out for the simple reason that people there can actually dip their toes in the river without...
Tornado, Flood Repairs to Missouri Facilities Could Cost Almost $13M
Jul 29 2019 // Repairs to Missouri government facilities damaged by recent tornadoes and flooding could cost almost $13 million, a majority of which would go toward fixing a historic prison that state officials are still trying to decide...
Wildlife Protection Rezoning Could Mean Flood Insurance Aid for 900 Coastal Mansions
Jul 26 2019 // On an exclusive Connecticut peninsula, where signs warn outsiders to stay off private roads, eight multimillion-dollar homes with sprawling yards along the Long Island Sound are poised to become eligible for...
Flood-Hit Midwest Businesses Struggle to Bring Customers Back
Jul 24 2019 // Some Nebraska and Iowa businesses are still struggling to recover from flooding that damaged their properties or otherwise kept customers away from their doors. The Federal Emergency Management Agency estimated that in...
Addressing Florida’s Rising Tide of Flood Exposures
Jul 24 2019 // In the past five years, all 50 states have experienced some type of flooding. Flooding has led to disasters throughout the decades, and this year, it is expected to become unprecedented yet again. Despite a long history of...
New Barry Insured Loss Estimate: Not More Than $500M, RMS Says
Jul 23 2019 // Global risk modeling and analytics firm, RMS, has estimated that the insured U.S. losses from Hurricane Barry will not exceed $500 million. This estimate represents insured losses associated with wind, storm surge and...
