How to tell if you’re in a flood plain
As Middle Tennessee braces for flooding over the weekend, the Federal Emergency Management Agency offers a tool to determine ...
Zillow Says This Louisiana City Has the Worst Flood Risk
Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez According to Zillow, New Orleans tops the list of U.S. metro areas facing the highest flood ...
Cyclone Zelia as it happened: WA prepares for category five weather system to hit state’s Pilbara region
The West Australian mining towns of Karratha and Port Hedland are both at risk of a “direct impact” from Severe Tropical ...
'Life-threatening' floods hit Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia as powerful storm brings downpours
Millions of Americans are in the path of a storm that is hitting parts of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia the hardest, with ...
FEMA's flood insurance program to borrow billions to pay 2024 post-Hurricane claims
The Federal Emergency Management Agency says its National Flood Insurance Program was forced to borrow $2 billion to help pay ...
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FEMA’s 50% elevation rule forces tough choices in flood-prone communities
FEMA's 50% rule on elevation is designed to stop the cycle of flood damage but is leading to opposite outcomes in two ...
The New York Times5d
FEMA Quietly Eases Rules Meant to Protect Buildings in Flood Zones
If FEMA doesn’t insist on reasonable flood standards, “we literally are wasting taxpayer money.” Christopher Flavelle is a Times reporter who writes about how the United States is trying to ...
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FEMA borrows $2 billion to pay flood insurance claims made after Hurricanes Helene, Milton
the Federal Emergency Management Agency is borrowing $2 billion to pay National Flood Insurance Program claims. "This borrowing action follows payouts in 2024 from several large-scale and back-to ...
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FEMA Exercises Borrowing Authority for National Flood Insurance Program
FEMA has exercised ... businesses by purchasing flood insurance get paid every dollar they are owed under their flood insurance policies. Flooding continues to be the costliest and most frequent ...
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FEMA to allow monthly flood insurance payments amid rising costs
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Amid soaring flood insurance premiums, FEMA has introduced a policy change that could ease the financial burden on policyholders. Late last year, FEMA, which administers the ...
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Trump says US disaster relief agency Fema should be ‘terminated’
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) should be eliminated, widening his fight against the federal bureaucracy that he has denounced as a ...