American basements are a hodgepodge of personal property, leveraged as storage units, man caves, game rooms, wine cellars, home bars and secondary living rooms. The problem is: If your basement floods ...

FARGO - Federal flood insurance officials still don't know if the city's basement exception will go away, leading to skyrocketing flood insurance premiums because of a recent overhaul of the National ...

Debby has weakened to a post-tropical storm, after making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane Monday. It's expected to bring more heavy rain and flooding to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — After 12 years of faithfully paying for flood insurance, Jaime Giangrande-Holcom and her husband filed a claim, after Hurricane Helene flooded their Town N’ Country home. They ...

SIOUX CITY — As the cleanup begins after last week's devastating floods in Siouxland, homeowners with flood-damaged properties may have a rude awakening ahead. Their homeowners insurance will not ...

Congress created the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) through enactment of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (NFIA) (Title XIII of Pub. L. 90-448, 82 Stat. 476), found at 42 U.S.C. 4001 ...

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Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Homeowners may have purchased flood insurance for such an eventuality. However, policyholders may be surprised — and frustrated — to learn that flood ...

States in the southeastern U.S. were drenched with heavy rains and flash floods from Hurricane Debby this week. Though Debby has weakened to a post-tropical storm, it threatens to inundate the ...