The 112-page lawsuit includes 43 parishes and 10 states calling FEMA’s new rating system a badly flawed program. Officials say they want to fix flood insurance not just for Louisiana, but for ...

St. Charles Parish filed suit against FEMA on Tuesday over its controversial new system for setting flood insurance rates, alleging the federal agency has failed to respond to public records ...

Ten states, 43 parishes, 12 levee boards and more banded together last year to sue FEMA over the implementation of Risk Rating 2.0. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was then Solicitor ...

HOUMA, La. — Beginning September 7, new FEMA flood maps will go into effect for Terrebonne Parish residents if the parish council adopts them. The council will vote on the maps Wednesday, August 23.

Flood insurance is a tenet of life in water-burdened Louisiana. But skyrocketing costs of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage are spurring significant departure from the program.

Risk Rating 2.0 was billed by FEMA as a long-overdue modernization effort, one that would tie premiums more closely to individual property risk rather than outdated flood zone maps.

The Flood Insurance Rate Maps used by FEMA are based on antiquated data and obsolete models. As a result, the U.S. government downplays flood risks for homeowners across the country—but ...

TERREBONNE PARISH, La. — The Terrebonne Parish Council adopted new FEMA flood zone maps on Wednesday, and the changes take effect Sept. 7.

But skyrocketing costs of National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) coverage are spurring significant departure from the program, with about 70,000 policies dropped in Louisiana from 2022 to 2024.

According to data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Natural Resource Defense Council, just over 43,000 properties have filed multiple flood insurance claims over the past 10 years.