June 8, 2022
ASFPM Testifies at NFIP Reauthorization Hearing Before House Subcommittee
By Mary Bart
Testimony centered on the importance of prioritizing mitigating at-risk properties, increasing flood-risk awareness, and ensuring full flood-risk disclosure for all property transactions.
April 4, 2022
Putting a Number on the Federal Expenditures Driven by Climate Change
By News Editor
For the first time, the OMB is formally accounting for climate change risks in the federal budget. Flood, fire, and drought may exact an immense financial toll.
March 7, 2022
Upcoming Webinars for Navigating Risk Rating 2.0: Phase II – Renewals
By News Editor
Beginning April 1, 2022, all NFIP policies will be priced under Risk Rating 2.0 at their next renewal. Attend one of these upcoming webinars from FEMA to learn how to transition existing policies.
February 1, 2022
RFI…And We Are Off!!
By Chad Berginnis, CFM
If the NFIP minimum standards were revised to include just these two standards, we would have an entirely new approach to land development and its relationship with flood hazard areas and avoid billions of dollars of future flood losses.
January 28, 2022
ASFPM Makes Recommendations for NFIP Reform, Stronger Floodplain Management Standards
By News Editor
ASFPM urges FEMA to strengthen the NFIP with better mapping, regulation, mitigation, and insurance provisions to protect communities from increasing flood risk associated with climate change.
November 3, 2021
FEMA to Host Public Meetings for Comment about Minimum Floodplain Management Standards
By News Editor
Whether you submit your comments verbally or in writing, ASFPM encourages all members to weigh in on this important topic.
June 1, 2021
Where to Build, and Not Build
By Larry Larson, P.E., CFM
Perhaps the biggest rap on the NFIP is its failure to help communities and states avoid development in high-risk areas.
May 24, 2021
Berginnis Testifies at NFIP Reauthorization Hearing, Makes the Case for Transformative Reform
By News Editor
In a Senate Committee hearing, Berginnis provided testimony on the importance of NFIP to helping families and communities become more resilient to flooding and offered recommendations on how it can be strengthened to better address current and future flood risk and ensure greater equity.
January 26, 2021
ASFPM Comments on HUD Proposed Rule on Private Flood Insurance
By News Editor
ASFPM submitted comments on HUD’s proposed rule to implement acceptance of private flood insurance as an alternative to NFIP insurance for FHA-insured mortgages.
January 6, 2021
As Flooding from Climate Change Worsens, Groups Seek to Change Outdated Federal Rules for Building Homes and Infrastructure
By News Editor
With millions of people at risk due to worsening flooding and costs of flood recovery rising as the climate continues to warm, NRDC and ASFPM petitioned FEMA today to update its rules for construction and land-use in floodplains, and to develop maps that project future flood risks.