Flood

Right now in the United States, less than 25% of homes in FEMA Flood Zones A or V have flood insurance, and the vast majority of the policies that do exist are written by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which is currently USD 23 billion in debt.

Chennai is the biggest industrial and commercial center in southern India. The December floods had a major impact on the area’s industrial, commercial, and residential sectors, causing business interruption and damage to infrastructure, automobiles, buildings, and contents.

Following December's major flooding in the state of Tamil Nadu in Southern India, we travelled from AIR's office in Hyderabad to survey damage in and around Chennai, Kanchipuram, and Thiruvallur.

Thanks to Storm Desmond and the recent flooding in the north of England and Scotland, flood defenses are a hot topic.

Several weeks of exceptionally heavy rain have brought major flooding to the state of Tamil Nadu in India and devastation to its capital of Chennai, India's fifth largest city.

In size and population, Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. Its principal natural hazard, flood, has for the most part occurred historically in areas where exposure values and insurance penetration are low.

Boston is basically a hill in a harbor surrounded by low-lying land reclaimed from salt marsh (fens) in the 1800s. In addition to hurricane and earthquake risk, it is increasingly threatened by flood.

The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has undergone many changes and improvements in recent years, starting with the Biggert-Waters Reform Act of 2012. Some of the most notable changes include revising existing rates and updating mapping information, which changed flood classifications for some policyholders.

For centuries we have fought flooding with defenses and suffered the consequences when they fail. But increasingly engineers and designers are looking into sustainable ways to cope with floodwater—to roll with it rather than trying to fight a losing battle against it.

The torrential rainfall across the southern Plains states on May 25 and 26 led to extensive and devastating flooding and to the tragic loss of at least 19 lives.