Buying a house during hurricane season can be challenging. Experts explain what you should know and what you should research.

Collier County has introduced a new tool to help homeowners stay ahead of storm risks. The county unveiled a new flood hazard ...

Flood insurance normally takes 30 days to go into effect. There are separate coverages for flood damage to a home’s structure itself and its contents. If a home or facility is in a high-risk area, an ...

True Flood Risk, a climate risk analytics company specializing in real-time, property-level flood intelligence, has introduced Canada’s first national dataset for structural elevation. The ...

Rules stipulating that lenders obtain an elevation certificate for the properties they finance also remain intact. ... The standard introduced by the Biden administration exceeded the requirements ...

You don’t have to live in an area prone to flooding to benefit from flood insurance. Nearly every U.S. county experienced a flood event over the past 20 years, according to FEMA. Standard home ...

Fema said the city didn’t properly document things like permits and elevation certificates, so the city got to work. “A lot of it’s just providing documents to residents information. It’s ...

If you don't have flood insurance, you will only get money from FEMA if a federal emergency is declared. Even if you do get assistance, a federal grant is usually between $3,000 and $6,000. That's not ...

FEMA requires new buildings and substantial improvements in all identified special flood hazard areas to be properly elevated and an elevation certificate allows homeowners to take this initial step ...

In other words, you get the building permit, and that floodplain development review was a part of that permit, including the flood elevation certificates.” Downtown Brinnon is 70 percent in a ...

Flood maps issued by FEMA go into effect Dec. 20, and according to the agency 5,000 properties have gone from low/medium flood risk to high risk in Palm Beach County.