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The flooding maps that determine flood insurance rates aren’t in tune with the latest climate projections. These new maps are more accurate.

Feb. 22—If you live in Florida, you should probably be paying more for flood insurance. And you likely will be soon. That first finding is the conclusion of a new analysis by First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research group focused on climate impacts on property value, which found that the majority of Floridians face a higher flood risk than their insurance costs would indicate. The second ...

Tech-powered brokerage Redfin is now publishing flood risk data for listings on the company’s website where such data is available, the brokerage announced Wednesday. That stands to impact listings on over 94 million homes on the company’s website. Individuals who visit Redfin.com will now see a “Flood Factor” score from 1 to 10 for each property (1 being the least risk), representing a home’s flood risk over the course of a 30-year period. That score will be determined by data collected by science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation, a company that also provides flood ...

/PRNewswire/ -- (NASDAQ: RDFN) — Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage, is now publishing flood risk information for nearly...

Costs of climate change are rising: New research s... Costs of climate change are rising: New research shows how local communities could be strained in the near-term This blog post was co-authored with Nina Donaldson Much of the existing research on climate change impacts focuses on end-of-century projections across nations, but this misses the very real costs that everyday Americans are already facing daily and will continue to face in the months and years ahead. Case in point today: While most Americans believe that climate change currently affects the U.S., only about a third of the adult ...