Water levels remain high along the Looking Glass River on Airport Road in DeWitt following recent storms, leaving local ...

Congressman Troy A. Carter partners to tackle rising homeowner and flood insurance costs impacting American families.

The flood insurance program faces a Sept. 30 deadline. Major elements can disappear without Congressional action. Participation in the program is already extremely low and sinking fast because of ...

Nationwide, only about 6% of households carry flood insurance, according to data from the Insurance Information Institute.

Homeowners insurance does not cover flood damage, and most flood policies require a 30-day waiting period before taking ...

“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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A neighborhood is inundated by floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey near east Interstate 10 on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in ...

Hilton Head residents often face difficult decision of risking their coastal home and going without insurance, or pay thousands to protect it.

Nearly 200,000 properties could be moved into high-risk flood zones under the FEMA's overhaul of Harris County's flood maps.

Flood insurance is becoming a luxury as rising prices across South Carolina forcing residents to weigh the costs of coastal ...

Engineers at the University of Houston have unlocked decades of hidden flood risk data, using artificial intelligence to ...