Decade of Data Shows FEMA Flood Maps Missed 3-in-4 Claims
September 11, 2017
September 11, 2017
HOUSTON, Sept. 11 -- Rice University issued the following news release:
An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 to 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100-year flood plain maps -- the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums -- failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100-year event.
The research by . . .
An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 to 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100-year flood plain maps -- the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums -- failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100-year event.
The research by . . .