Flood coverage now averages roughly $947 a year nationwide, which means you are weighing a four-figure line item against the ...

It’s a call that Shari Mendrick, the town of Hilton Head’s floodplain manager, gets almost every day: A Hilton Head resident wants to know if they should drop their flood insurance. The town adopted ...

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 ...

FEMA has proposed an updated flood map for the watershed, which moves some residents into a flood zone. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has proposed a new flood insurance rate map for the ...

You may think your low-risk home buys you a break on flood coverage, yet many owners in moderate zones still pay roughly $628 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the middle of hurricane season, and meteorologists say we’ve been lucky so far. Of the nine named storms and three hurricanes ...

Some new developments in Brunswick County are looking at 20-year-old floodplain data. A newer flood risk report could bring the county up to speed.