Latest Flood Headlines
All the headlines from our Flood Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Study Reaffirms Virginia Flooding Predictions as Sea Levels Rise
Jul 14 2017 // A new study reaffirms predictions that parts of coastal Virginia will face chronic flooding if nothing is done about sea-level rise. The Union of Concerned Scientists said Wednesday that a city like Poquoson, Va., could...
Study Shows Many Homeowners Would Do Better with Private Flood Insurance
Jul 13 2017 // It’s no great revelation that when prices are centrally controlled, they tend not to reflect reality. In some cases, this means that consumers pay less than the true value of a good or product. In other cases, they...
New Flood Insurance Company Approved in Arkansas
Jul 13 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in Arkansas. In a press...
RMS Launches New Models for Tropical Cyclone & Earthquake in Asia Pacific
Jul 12 2017 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, has introduced typhoon models for wind and flood for South Korea and Taiwan, plus four new earthquake models for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and...
New York’s U.S. Senators Urge Quick Federal Action on Flooding
Jul 12 2017 // New York’s U.S. senators are urging officials in Washington to quickly approve a disaster declaration for areas along Lake Ontario affected by recent floods. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats,...
Louisiana Farmers Could be Helped by $10M Program for Flood Recovery
Jul 10 2017 // Farmers and ranchers in 51 Louisiana parishes could be eligible for grants from a $10 million program aimed to help with recovery from last year’s flooding. Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain’s office says...
June Catastrophes Cost Global Economy $5 Billion; U.S. Storms Dominate: Aon
Jul 10 2017 // Floods and storms cost the global economy more than $5 billion in June, with most of those losses generated in the United States, according to an Aon catastrophe report. In the U.S., large hail, tornadoes, straight-line...
Deluges Follow Droughts as ‘Hydrological Extremes’ Become ‘New Normal’
Jul 10 2017 // Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that...
Vermont Tallying Up Flash Flood Damage from Heavy Rains
Jul 7 2017 // Officials worked Wednesday to tally up the flood damaged to central Vermont roads, culverts and a municipal water system following last week’s storms to determine if the state will seek federal assistance for...
Arizona Prepping for Floods in Wake of Massive Wildfire
Jul 6 2017 // A northern Arizona wildfire is nearing full containment and officials say it’s time to take precautions against possible post-fire flooding. Officials say there’s a high risk of flooding during the monsoon, and...
Flood Insurance in the Standard Market Part 2
Jul 5 2017 // Last week, we started a conversation about flood coverage. If you missed last week’s blog, go back and read it now. We’ll wait for you. To sum up last week’s blog, I believe that the standard market could...
Officials: New Minot Flood Plain Map Could Hike Insurance Premiums
Jun 30 2017 // Minot, N.D., leaders say the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s proposed new flood plain map could raise insurance premiums for thousands of property owners. The preliminary map shows about 4,000 properties along...
Ratings of San Antonio’s Wright National Flood Insurance Affirmed
Jun 30 2017 // A.M. Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A- (Excellent) and the long-term issuer credit rating of “a-” of Wright National Flood Insurance Co. (WNFIC) in San Antonio, Texas. The outlook of these...
New Flood Insurance Product For Florida Homeowners Available from American Integrity
Jun 29 2017 // American Integrity Insurance Group (AI), a Florida-based insurance provider, has unveiled a private flood insurance option for homeowners. AI is one of nine Florida-based insurers to offer its own flood program that...
Corps to Begin Repairing Holes in Arkansas Levees
Jun 28 2017 // U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected to begin repairing nine sections of a levee along the Black River in northeast Arkansas that was damaged by floods last month. Emergency workers are making plans to cover...
Flood Insurance in the Standard Market Part 1
Jun 28 2017 // We’re all insurance people here, right? OK, so let’s play a word association game. I’ll give you a word and you think about the first word that comes to mind. Ready? Flood. It’ll be interesting to...
Tropical Storm Cindy Drenches Southeast
Jun 26 2017 // A police officer stands guard after a possible tornado touched down destroying several businesses, Thursday, June 22, 2017, in Fairfield, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Cindy covered timberland...
Powered by Homegrown Insurtech, HCI to Expand Flood Insurance Sales to 9 States
Jun 26 2017 // As Congress tries to figure out how to change the federal flood insurance program to encourage more private insurer involvement, one insurer isn’t waiting to wade deeper into the private flood insurance business....
House Committee Adds 5 More Bills to Its Flood Insurance Reform Package
Jun 22 2017 // The House Financial Services Committee advanced five flood insurance proposals on Wednesday, adding to the two bills it passed last week. The House measures seek to reform and reauthorize the National Flood Insurance...
Tropical Storm Cindy Bears Down on Gulf Coast
Jun 22 2017 // Tropical Storm Cindy churned slowly on Wednesday across the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landing on the Texas-Louisiana border, after claiming the life of a vacationing child and threatening to bring flash floods from...
