The cost hikes stem from mandates by Congress to require rates charged by the National Flood Insurance Program, which is run by FEMA, to reflect the cost of flood risk to individual covered properties ...

Joshua Carroll owns Valley Auto Spa in Big Stone Gap, one of the many businesses and homes in Southwest Virginia impacted by Hurricane Helene. The storm was Category 4 when it hit the Florida coast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In spite of rising costs, Floridians aren’t ditching their flood insurance policies, a new study found. But the rest of the nation ...

FEMA’s new flood insurance Risk Rating 2.0 methodology takes into consideration factors like a property’s distance from the ocean. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently released data ...

For more than a month, a lapse in funding froze Americans’ largest provider of flood insurance. The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 90% of all U.S. flood policies, often couldn’t ...

Something is shifting in the American housing market, and it's moving quietly beneath the headlines. In flood-prone ZIP codes ...

SALEM, Va. – New preliminary FEMA flood maps proposed for our region could change what homeowners pay for flood insurance, ...

For more than a month, a lapse in funding froze Americans’ largest provider of flood insurance. The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 90% of all U.S. flood policies, often couldn’t ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 90% of all U.S. flood policies, often couldn’t sell or renew coverage during the 44-day government shutdown.1 The budget bill that ended the ...