The letter claims the flood insurance premium pricing change has made the product unaffordable, resulting in a large drop off ...

Flooding can happen to anyone. “All 50 states have experienced significant flooding,” said Ileana Ledet, senior vice president of Policy at Greater New Orleans Inc. Recently the Federal Emergency ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Sens. John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy join other U.S. senators in urging the Federal Emergency ...

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 ...

It’s bad news for the program, which is in $22 billion of debt, plus faces rising costs to insure flood prone homes as climate change raises sea levels and intensifies rainstorms. A for sale sign ...

Sacramento County's efforts to reduce flood risks have paid off, as the county has maintained its FEMA Class Two rating in the National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System. Though winter ...

Sens. John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy urge the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to stop Risk Rating 2.0 while seeking transparency into how flood insurance rates are set.