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flood insurance

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noun

  1. insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.


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Her flood insurance -- which is separate -- now costs $600 more annually and is up to more than $1,700.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

That freeze has left many buyers in the lurch and stuck without financing or the flood insurance that’s required for their mortgage.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 31, 2025

One big unknown: how many Americans will decide they want flood insurance at a time when home-insurance costs are already way up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Burgess is now betting on flood insurance, an undertaking so unprofitable that for decades private companies steered clear.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Just three weeks before, he had chosen not to renew the part of their flood insurance that covered their furniture, everything in the house.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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