Flooding Drives Millions to Move as Climate Migration Patterns Emerge December 19, 2023 By Michael Phillis and Camille Fassett Flooding is driving millions of people to move out of their homes, limiting growth in some prospering communities and accelerating...
More Than 17 Million Properties Face Substantial Flood Risk: Study July 3, 2023 By Ezra Amacher More than half of the U.S. population resides in a county that is likely to experience stormwater system failure due...
Hurricanes Moving Farther North to Pummel Millions More Homes in US February 27, 2023 By Leslie Kaufman and Eric Roston Is it possible to predict exactly where the wind will blow? How about where it will blow 30 years from...
Much of the Country to Bake Under 125-Degree Days in Coming Decades, Report Finds August 16, 2022 In just 30 years, more than a quarter of the United States, including a large patch of the Upper Midwest,...
Businesses Can Expect to Spend $13.5 Billion on Repairs Due to Flooding in 2022 December 28, 2021 A new report estimates that U.S. businesses could spend about $13.5 billion in 2022 to repair or replace flood-damaged commercial...
Ida’s Inland Path May Reveal Hidden Risk, Test Mapping Methods of Hurricane Floods September 2, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Leslie Kaufman With remnants of Ida delivering downpours and fierce winds from North Carolina to New Jersey, U.S. government methods for assessing...
Study: Floridians in Flood Zones Underpaying for Flood Insurance by Average of 379% March 15, 2021 By Alex Harris If you live in Florida, you should probably be paying more for flood insurance. And you likely will be soon....
Federal Flood Insurance Premiums Far From Keeping Up With Expected Losses February 22, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson If the nearly 4.3 million residential homes (1-4 units) across the country with substantial flood risk were to be insured...
Study: Indiana City Has Many More Flood-Prone Properties than FEMA Maps Show August 31, 2020 A northern Indiana city that sits along the Wabash River is home to thousands more flood-prone homes and properties than...
Nonprofit Opening Flood Risk Model to Researchers and Public January 14, 2020 A nonprofit flood risk research organization is offering the first publicly available flood risk model that predicts the probability of...