Cornell University researchers want to speak to homeowners about why so many are dropping flood insurance, even as environmental risks like recent ice jams keep the threat of flooding front and center ...

A new study published in Nature Water finds that wetland loss across the United States has increased residential flood insurance claim payments by more than $10 billion since 1985, underscoring the ...

The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program is going broke. Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways of predicting flood risk, are putting property owners at risk and the ...

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 ...

Oct. 31—LAFAYETTE — Corey Rabeaux knows his house is always at risk of flooding. It happened in 2016. Then 2017. Then 2019. After the last time, resigned to fate, he decided to leave a 6-inch space ...