Nearly three months after hurricanes Helene and Milton delivered record flood and storm surge levels to cities in Florida, the state has accepted a public loss model that FIU helped design to assess ...

At the corner of 183rd Street and 90th Avenue in Hollis, Queens, there’s a yellow diamond street sign with black letters: ROAD MAY FLOOD. It was installed after the remnants of Hurricane Ida dumped ...

North Carolinians are no strangers to flooding. As Helene and Chantal showed, that's true for more than just coastal counties. But a new study found that more than 40% of properties that have flooded ...

After years of back and forth, new flood maps with major implications for property owners’ land values, insurance rates and building costs along a watershed stretching from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park ...

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 ...

Before rain begins to fall, scientists and engineers can predict where a storm might cause flooding thanks to advanced ...

Floods are among the top natural disaster threats to homes because of their increasing frequency, potential for devastating consequences, and the growing costs to repair their damage. So if you ...

MIAMI — Among those feeling the pain of the government shutdown are people in coastal areas and other locations where they need flood insurance. The government-backed National Flood Insurance Program ...