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#1 Neptune Flood: 77% of At-Risk Homes Outside FEMA Zones Have No Flood Insurance

Aug 7 2025 // Many homeowners underestimate their flood risk, leaving millions uninsured or underinsured in the face of a rising tide of flood events. A 2025 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia (FRBP) found 70% of annual...

#2 Why Experts Say States Need to Get in the Business of Floodplain Buyouts

Aug 8 2025 // As flooding becomes an increasingly common and destructive feature of Texas life, housing experts are calling for the creation of a statewide, voluntary buyout program to move residents out of the most high-risk areas. The...

#3 Cotality Estimates $1.1B in Damage to Residential Buildings from Central Texas Floods

Jul 30 2025 // Cotality estimates that the recent Central Texas flash floods caused $1.1 billion in damage to residential buildings, with the National Flood Insurance Program providing as much as $135 million in insurance recoveries to...

#4 Emergency Recordings Show Chaos of Deadly Texas Floods

Aug 25 2025 // Cries for help came from the pitch-black woods, from rooftops and from attics that shifted unsteadily as the water rose. Firefighters and police raced to help, having little guidance on where or how. Top emergency leaders...

#5 Texas Homeowners Question Whether to Rebuild After Floods

Aug 12 2025 // Brian Keeper doesn’t remember exactly when his family began spending holidays in Hunt, an unincorporated town on the banks of the Guadalupe River where they’d camp, swim, and fish. Sometimes they caught so many...

#6 South Africa Is Considering Flood Insurance for Large Cities

Aug 4 2025 // South Africa is studying whether some of its largest cities should take out flood insurance after a series of disasters in recent years led to bailouts from the government. The insurance being considered is parametric, a...

#7 Temporary Barriers Spared Alaska’s Capital From Severe Flooding, Long-Term Fix Elusive

Aug 18 2025 // The glacial flooding that sent residents of Alaska’s capital city scrambling this week has become an annual ordeal for those who live along the picturesque river that winds from the nearby Mendenhall Glacier. This...

#8 Hartford Flood Relief Program Gets $4.7 Million More to Meet Demand

Aug 6 2025 // Connecticut has approved $4.7 million in new funding for a program that helps homeowners, businesses and tenants in the city of Hartford’s neighborhoods recover from flooding. The Hartford Flood Compensation &...

#9 Chicago Launches Flood-Warning System as Rainstorms Intensify

Aug 15 2025 // Nedra Sims Fears still remembers the night years ago when her family home in Chicago flooded, sparking an electrical fire. Her father woke her up and rushed her outside into the pouring rain as smoke filled the rooms of...

#10 West Virginia Will Finally Study How to Protect Communities After 2016 Floods

Aug 15 2025 // Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that...

#11 Along Texas’ Guadalupe River, Several Summer Camps Are in Flood Zones

Aug 13 2025 // The all-girls Christian summer camp where 27 people, most of them children, were swept away and killed by the July 4 flooding in Kerr County was just one of 13 summer camps along the Guadalupe River built on land prone to...

#12 Family Killed When Tree Falls on Car in Flooding in East Tennessee

Aug 14 2025 // Heavy rain led to flooding around Chattanooga, Tennesse, where a family of three was killed when a tree fell on their car early Wednesday morning. News reports indicated that saturated ground caused the large tree to fall...

#13 Wisconsin Severe Storms Cause Flooding, Knock Out Power

Aug 12 2025 // Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their vehicles, cut power to thousands of households and...

#14 How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk

Aug 22 2025 // When Hurricane Helene barreled across several southern states last fall, it destroyed homes and killed more than 150 people. The storm also took out one of the country’s main factories producing intravenous fluid...

#15 Montpelier Flood Mitigation Plan Calls for Removing Dam, Restoring Floodplain

Aug 21 2025 // In Montpelier, city officials plan to remove the Pioneer Street Dam and restore a nearby floodplain. Together, the projects are predicted to have compounding positive effects that reduce flood risk in the city. The Pioneer...

#16 Milwaukee Area Recovers From Record Rain and Flooding

Aug 14 2025 // The Milwaukee area began drying out Monday after weekend rain hit unofficial records in Wisconsin of more than 14 inches (36 centimeters) in less than 24 hours, leading multiple rivers to flood at record-high levels,...

#17 Kerrville Officials’ Messages Show Lack of Information About Coming Floods

Aug 1 2025 // As the floods hit, Kerrville officials’ messages show lack of information about what was coming” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and...

#18 Texas Senate Passes Bills Aimed at Improving Flood Safety

Aug 19 2025 // The Texas Senate quickly got to work Monday by passing several bills on the chamber’s desk as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda for the second special session of the year for the Legislature, focusing first on...

#19 Texas Lawmakers Advance Flood Bills With Grieving Parents in Attendance

Aug 22 2025 // Nearly seven weeks ago on July 4, the Guadalupe River raged out of its banks and killed more than 130 people, including two teenage counselors and 25 young girls at Camp Mystic who had been asleep in their cabins before...

#20 Texas Bill Would Levy Stricter Penalties on Camps Following Hill Country Flood

Aug 26 2025 // A bill that would tighten how youth camps are penalized for safety deficiencies and that would diminish the industry’s influence on a state advisory committee has gained traction in the Legislature. While Senate Bill...