Flood Insurance: Introduction
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Little known facts about flood disasters

Did you know that...
  • Flood is the most common disaster
  • 90% of all presidentially declared disasters involve flood
  • Only 10% of all disasters are declared
  • 30-45% of all floods involve non-special flood hazard areas
  • Property within a Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) stand a 26% chance of being flooded within a 30-year time frame
  • 95% of the two million California properties required by the Federal Disaster Protection Act of l973 to have flood insurance are currently unprotected
  • Flood damage to property in a special flood hazard area is 26% more likely then a fire
  • Failure to place flood insurance coverage is fast becoming a major cause of errors and omissions claims against agents and brokers


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