Hurricane Helene may have made landfall over 5 months ago, but aftershocks are still being felt by cities, towns, and residents along Florida’s West Coast storm path. While insurance regulators have …
The slow and interrupted pace of the past two months of Florida legislative committee meetings yielded an avalanche of bills in the last two weeks prior to this past Friday’s filing deadline, including several shocking bills that …
Governor DeSantis has released his proposed 2025-2026 state budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 and it includes added funding for disaster mitigation and recovery programs, as well as insurance regulation. …
The impacts of severe hurricanes are often wide-reaching and multifaceted, and Helene and Milton’s paths of devastation in Florida will be no exception. With so many residents suffering flood damage and without flood insurance to help repair their homes, what …
Florida’s Big Bend region can’t catch a break when it comes to major hurricanes lately. At 11:10 pm Thursday night, Hurricane Helene made landfall at Dekle Beach right outside Perry as …
AccuWeather predicts a “Supercharged September” as we enter the peak of hurricane season, data shows huge increases in extreme hurricane rainfall that could cost hundreds of billions of dollars, the U.S. Census is out with a new …
The recent South Florida deluge generates several thousand automobile insurance claims for flooded vehicles and a data call, Tallahassee gets a federal disaster declaration for last month’s tornados, there’s new money for home mitigation …
The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and Fannie Mae have developed version 2.0 of their Resilience Incentivization Roadmap – a rigorous study on mitigation investment, and an FAMU-FSU researcher is leading a team to …
The Florida Legislature’s second week of committee meetings this past week came as news was breaking of two more deaths from September’s Hurricane Ian. The remains of an elderly man were found on his sunken sailboat …
Congress has temporarily extended the National Flood Insurance Program through mid-December, while a report suggests insurance companies need partners to reduce flood risks worldwide. Plus, FEMA clarifies underwriting requirements in its Risk Rating 2.0 methodology …
