A potential lapse in the National Flood Insurance Program threatens to stall thousands of home sales, disrupt mortgage approvals, and strain housing markets in flood-prone regions nationwide As the ...

“Flooding can happen just about anywhere it rains or snows,” says the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In fact, 99 percent of U.S. counties have been hit by flooding in the past 20 years.

Federal Mapping Systems Are Decades Behind Current Risk A 2023 assessment found that more than twice as many properties ...

The following information was released by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) encourages Wisconsinites to learn about flood risks across ...

WASHINGTON – Federal disaster relief, on which hurricane and flood-prone Louisiana relies, is caught in the congressional fight to put guard rails on increasingly controversial immigration enforcement ...

The Trump administration is proposing massive changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We asked disaster experts ...

No, this isn’t déjà vu. The National Flood Insurance Program, which insures nearly 5 million properties nationwide, is once again nearing its expiration date. Unless Congress acts by Jan. 30, 2026, ...

Flooding across the United States in 2025 caused more than 130 fatalities in the Texas Hill Country alone and billions of dollars in insured losses, yet fewer than 1% of households in some of the ...

Congress extended NFIP to Sept. 30, preventing immediate mortgage and home sale disruptions for NC homeowners.

But the Flood Re scheme is a temporary fix that’s due to end in 2039, on the assumption that flood risk will fall and the ...

Congress approved, and President Trump signed, a funding package that ended a brief shutdown and reauthorized the National Flood Insurance Program to prevent disruptions in home sales and mortgage ...