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 ...
Tag: National Flood Insurance Program
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 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 ...
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 ...
Despite new resilience programs, more needs to be done to protect the people living and working in existing buildings
Last month, Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach and Miami launched their “Resilient305” initiative. This was another strategy supported by the Rockefeller ...
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