For half a century, a federal program has covered most at-risk properties. Now, a private company is pitching a plan to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) - Authorization for the largest residential flood insurance program in the U.S. is set to expire Tuesday, leaving homeowners unable to access new coverage and potentially wreaking havoc on home ...

This article was originally published by Southern Science. Some have called Alabama’s Dauphin Island the “Unluckiest Island in America” because it has repeatedly been hit by major hurricanes and ...

As Texas begins to assess the toll of catastrophic flash floods over the July Fourth weekend, experts say the devastation underscores the importance of flood insurance. More than 100 people have died ...

FEMA approved the city to join its Community Rating System, a program that rewards municipalities that take steps to reduce flood risk.