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Prepared with data from the Census Bureau, information from PowerOutage.us and policy data from the National Flood Insurance Program, the map published by the media NBCNews shows which are the areas in which more citizens have flood insurance in the state of Florida.
On the map, the regions in dark blue are those with a higher percentage of homes with flood insurance. Thus, coastal cities generally have the most covered residences, as is the case in Monroe County, Florida, where approximately 42 percent of households have insurance.
On the other hand, coverage is rarer in inland counties. In the North Carolina counties most affected by the hurricane, the figure was only 1 percentand in South Carolina it was even lower, with only 0.3 percent covered by insurance.
Alternatives to insurance in Florida
The main flood insurance company in Florida is the NFIP, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which provides almost 95 percent of covered residences in the country. “The horror stories I hear are from people whose homes flooded. They don’t have an NFIP policy, they don’t have a Neptune policy and their home insurance doesn’t cover flood risk,” said Trevor Burgess, CEO of Neptune Flood, in dialogue with the aforementioned medium.
The agency FEMA Provides Assistance to Those Without Flood Insurancebut the payment represents a small percentage of the average claim payment for those with federal insurance.
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