The nation’s flood insurance program struggles to balance affordability, flood protection and cost to taxpayers, leaving ...

Nationwide, just 2.4% of properties are covered by 4.5 million federal flood insurance policies, an Associated Press analysis ...

Congress prevented NFIP to lapse before a “Godzilla” El Niño hits the country. But the program is in dire need of being ...

Losses are increasingly hitting lower-risk areas where insurance take-up can be weakest and client awareness lowest, says ...

The National Flood Insurance Program, a public insurance program sponsored by the federal government insures 4.7 million policyholders and protects more than $1.28 trillion in assets. Congress has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. buying a house in flood zone It's the middle of hurricane season, and meteorologists say we've been lucky so far. Of the nine ...

"There are two programs, the National Flood Insurance Program and flood mapping, that contribute to people building in the ...

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 ...

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 Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways of predicting flood risk, are putting property owners at risk and the ...

U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana told a Baton Rouge columnist that Congress has done a number of good ...

Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana homeowners, many of them still digging out of Hurricane Ida's destruction, will soon see rising flood insurance bills.

Walton, New York, faced repeated flooding and rebuilding until the community came together to fix it with small projects.