Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jennifer Johnson and her mother Steffi Cooper leave their flood damaged home in the Weatherhill Pointe neighborhood of Carrboro, N ...

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

For many Houstonians, flood insurance will soon become a mandatory part of their household budgets for the first time. Search our map to find out how much it currently costs.

Authorization for the largest residential flood insurance program in the U.S. is set to expire Tuesday, leaving homeowners unable to access new coverage and potentially wreaking havoc on home sales in ...

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 4081(a),[1] the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is authorized to engage private insurers to sell National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policies under the Write ...

On July 30, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake occurred off of Russia’s Eastern Kamchatka coast, subsequently triggering tsunami warnings in, among other places, Japan and Hawaii. Some have postulated that ...

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Flood insurance is becoming a luxury as rising prices across South Carolina forcing residents to weigh the costs of coastal living.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Monday it has launched a National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) call center pilot program to serve and support policyholders with 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 Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways of predicting flood risk, are putting property owners at risk and the ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, which accounts for 88% of the nation's flood insurance and is managed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is set to expire on Sept. 30. If Congress and ...