The National Flood Insurance Program soon will start using a new risk-assessment method
By Amanda Bryant, Associate in National Flood Insurance The National Flood Insurance Program’s (NFIP) new rating methodology, Risk Rating 2.0, ...
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“America has a ‘resilience deficit’; Will FEMA’s Risk Rating 2.0 help or hurt?
By: Albert J. Slap, President, Coastal Risk Consulting The U.S. sustained 298 weather and climate disasters since 1980, where overall ...
Flooded with National Flood Insurance Program rate hikes, Floridians can explore private flood insurance options
By Jennifer Scherff, My Flood Insurance FEMA has announced more details of its long-awaited Risk Rating 2.0 program that will ...
Owners can determine their property’s risk of flooding by using this free online tool
By John Englander, oceanographer and author Flood Factor® is a recently upgraded tool that will calculate a simple flood risk ...
Florida’s insurance marketplace needs a course correction to cope with stronger storms and more flooding
By Virginia Clancy, TAPCO Underwriters I hope the word “unprecedented” is not used as much in 2021, but it certainly described ...
Many property owners don’t understand how flood insurance works
By Jennifer Scherff, Project Manager for My Flood Insurance Our team has heard almost every myth about flood insurance. We ...
Many Floridians who own property vulnerable to flooding don’t have flood insurance
By Jennifer Scherff, My Flood Insurance We need to talk about flood insurance. The topic of flooding has been very ...
As flood threats rise, Floridians have a right to know their risk
By Amanda Bryant, My Flood Risk For more than a year, flood preparedness advocates in Florida have urged lawmakers to protect homebuyers ...
It’s important for Florida property owners to understand the risks they face from flooding as sea levels rise
Hurricane season is behind us, but floods can occur anywhere it rains or anywhere near a body of water. They ...
A 45-year-old federal privacy law makes it difficult for homebuyers to get a property’s flooding history
The Privacy Act of 1974, while laudable in its aim to provide citizens with rights to control the federal government’s ...
See what happens to your neighborhood as the sea level rises with this interactive map from Climate Central.