Rapidly improving data and models are giving homeowners more information about their
disaster risk while also increasing insurance premiums for the highest risk homes. In this …

The impact of flood events on flood risk perception has important implications for policy.
Applying a novel dataset featuring the flooding extents from a severe event in Colorado, we …

Flooding is among the costliest natural disasters in the United States. Although the federal
government provides floodplain boundary maps and subsidizes insurance, demand remains …

Millions of properties in the US are exposed to increasing threats from natural disasters. Yet,
a large majority of at-risk homes are uninsured against the costliest disaster: flooding …

Existing studies that estimate losses in home values due to being located in a designated
flood zone, such as a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) in the US, focus exclusively on …

A typical US homebuyer's understanding of whether a property faces flood risk is based on
whether the property is located inside the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) …

This paper examines the impact of two nationwide reforms to the National Flood Insurance
Program on both flood insurance and property markets. The 2012 and 2014 reforms aimed …

Flood risk management requires an understanding of the role that the private insurance
system can play in helping to manage future flood risk, and how insurance uptake may vary …

Climate change, the 'boom and bust'cycles of rivers, and altered water resource
management practice have caused significant changes in the spatial distribution of the risk …

In this article, we analyze the role of flood insurance on the housing markets of coastal
areas. To do so, we assembled a parcel-level dataset of the universe of residential sales for …