The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program is going broke. Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways of predicting flood risk, are putting property owners at risk and the ...

Cornell University researchers want to speak to homeowners about why so many are dropping flood insurance, even as environmental risks like recent ice jams keep the threat of flooding front and center ...

North Carolinians are no strangers to flooding. As Helene and Chantal showed, that's true for more than just coastal counties. But a new study found that more than 40% of properties that have flooded ...

The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience, suggests that in the last few years, hundreds of thousands of Americans have dropped their flood insurance policies or ...

Drastic shifts in weather patterns, driven by climate change, are driving consumers toward private flood insurance. From increasing frequency to worsening intensities and unpredictability, these are ...

MIAMI — Among those feeling the pain of the government shutdown are people in coastal areas and other locations where they need flood insurance. The government-backed National Flood Insurance Program ...

After years of back and forth, new flood maps with major implications for property owners’ land values, insurance rates and building costs along a watershed stretching from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park ...

When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to ...