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When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency overhauled rates for millions of homeowners in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), in 2021, the goal was to end decades of underpricing and to ...

Esco Bell walked the length of Mount Vernon’s 1.7-mile floodwall just after midnight on Friday, watching the water creep up to the brim of the only barrier separating the surging Skagit River from the ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. FEMA issued a letter of final determination for the city’s ...

Apache Junction will implement FEMA’s updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) today. The new maps replace the 2007 version and provide residents with updated information on areas at risk for ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fairfield County residents and property owners will have an opportunity to view the newly revised digital preliminary flood insurance rate maps for the county and learn how the risk ...

INTO FRIDAY. MORE ON THE TIMING A LITTLE BIT LATER. ALL RIGHT DEREK, THANK YOU. JEFFERSON PARISH HOMEOWNERS FEELING THE SHORT END OF THE STICK, SAYING THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE RECEIVING A LOWER ...

Flood insurance costs in the state had already been rising rapidly as part of the NFIP’s new risk rating system.14 Adding to the financial pressure, Louisianans pay the second-highest average home ...

After years of back and forth, new flood maps with major implications for property owners’ land values, insurance rates and building costs along a watershed stretching from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park ...