Insurance.com reports that FEMA cuts to disaster response funding will likely increase home insurance rates and limit ...

The cost hikes stem from mandates by Congress to require rates charged by the National Flood Insurance Program, which is run by FEMA, to reflect the cost of flood risk to individual covered properties ...

Joshua Carroll owns Valley Auto Spa in Big Stone Gap, one of the many businesses and homes in Southwest Virginia impacted by Hurricane Helene. The storm was Category 4 when it hit the Florida coast ...

In spite of rising costs, Floridians aren’t ditching their flood insurance policies, a new study found. But the rest of the nation is dropping flood policies at a rate that could endanger the federal ...

U.S. House members talked with oil industry executives, Lafourche officials and Louisiana government about policies affecting ...

Before the next storm hits, review the pros and cons of FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program and private flood insurance ...

Flood coverage now averages roughly $947 a year nationwide, which means you are weighing a four-figure line item against the risk of a single storm wiping out your home’s equity. You face that choice ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 90% of all U.S. flood policies, often couldn’t sell or renew coverage during the 44-day government shutdown.1The budget bill that ended the ...

A for sale sign posted in a flooded area of Holiday Acres Mobile Home Park in Hialeah after an intense rainstorm in June 2024. The program that funds flood insurance is in peril because people in ...

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 ...

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