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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 ...

Cost of flood damage to U.S. homes will increase by 61% in 30 years

Listen • 4:25 Rainelle, W. Va. flooded in June 2016. Years later, the town still hasn't recovered. When large numbers of people don't have insurance or savings after a disaster, the effects can ripple through the community. Pastor Aaron Trigg was at home when the water arrived in Rainelle. It had been raining hard all day, filling the creeks and rivers that run through southern West Virginia. In the past, such intense downpours would last only a few hours, but this storm brought wave after wave of torrential rain. "You could hear the water up in the mountains just crashi...

Over 4 million homes - concentrated in Florida, California, South Carolina and Texas - are at substantial risk but most are not required to have flood insurance, ...

If the nearly 4.3 million residential homes (1-4 units) across the country with substantial flood risk were to be insured through the National Flood