What Flood Insurance Does and Does Not Cover July 10, 2025 By Sally Ho Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners how...
Corps Revises Pearl River Flood Study in Mississippi, Sets New Comment Period July 10, 2025 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a revised study on potential flood controls for the part of the...
Deadliest Flooding in Last 25 Years Came in Areas With Low Flood Insurance Take-Up July 8, 2025 By Staff and Wire Reports Flooding has caused an average of more than 125 deaths per year and billions of dollars in damage in the...
Flash Flooding Again Hits West Virginia Areas Trying to Clean Up from Deluge June 27, 2025 A northern West Virginia region still cleaning up from flash flooding less than two weeks ago was hit with torrential...
A Shrinking FEMA Puts Lake Town’s Rebuilding Plans in Limbo June 26, 2025 By Nathan Layne LAKE LURE, North Carolina, June 17 (Reuters) – When Hurricane Helene’s flood waters slammed into Lake Lure’s century-old dam last...
‘Abolishing FEMA’ Memo Outlines Ways for Trump to Scrap Agency June 17, 2025 By Zahra Hirji, Jason Leopold and Lauren Rosenthal Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency to prepare a memo on how to abolish itself...
Trump Can’t End FEMA But It Needs Reform, Says Obama’s FEMA Head June 17, 2025 By Leslie Kaufman President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he intends to whittle down or phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and...
Flash Flooding Kills 5 in West Virginia as Rescue Teams Search for Missing June 16, 2025 By Dave Collins Flash flooding caused by torrential rains killed five people in northern West Virginia and rescue crews were searching for three...
Deadly April Rainfall in South, Midwest Intensified by Climate Change, Scientists Say May 9, 2025 By Isabella O'Malley Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and made those storms...
Acting FEMA Chief Is Ousted After Less Than 4 Months May 8, 2025 By Chad Hemenway Less than a month before the start of hurricane season, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has...