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Flooding is the most costly natural disaster in the United States. As climate change increases the risk of flood damage, a new report finds that the country's National Flood Insurance Program is greatly underestimating the financial threat to homeowners.
A new study finds that federal flood insurance premiums underestimate flooding risks. Those risks will increase over time, according to the First Street Foundation.
As climate change increases flooding, Mass. likely to see damaged-property costs surge, report says Advocates call for plans to manage a retreat from low-lying coastal areas By David Abel Globe Staff,Updated February 22, 2021, 12:01 a.m. Email to a Friend In January 2018. the Brant Rock section of Marshfield suffered at high tide during a blizzard.John Tlumacki By mid-century, nearly 50,000 homes a year in Massachusetts will face a substantial risk of structural damage from flooding, an 11 percent increase from today, according to a report. As sea levels rise and storms become more powerful ...
A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat at 9:02 pm NPR 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 only last a few hours. But this storm brought wave after wave of torrential rain. "You could hear the water up in the mountains just crashing trees," Trigg remembers. Rainelle is a small town in a steep valley. When the creek near downtown jumped its banks on the evening...
Many residents in Southwest Florida could face a significant increase in flood insurance costs under the Federal Emergency Management Agency's forthcoming Risk Rating 2.0, and those prices are expected to rise with the sea levels because of climate change. Even though the biggest change ever in how the National Flood Insurance Program calculates premiums is scheduled to take effect in just over seven months, FEMA and its recent revolving door of leaders haven't shared those details with Americans. However, a public service by our USA TODAY Network in partnership with nonprofit First Str...