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164 declarations since 2015 · 42 states

Flooding

People drive into it.

More than half of all flood deaths are vehicle-related. It takes twelve inches of moving water to carry off a small car and eighteen to move a larger one. It is almost never a road you do not know — it is the one you have driven a thousand times, where you cannot see how deep it is or whether the road is still there underneath.

Source: NWS / CDC
Do this tonight

Photograph every room in your house. It takes about eleven minutes and it is your insurance claim. Then move anything irreplaceable off the floor.

Where flooding actually get declared

Federal major disaster declarations, FY2015–present.

Texas 10West Virginia 10Montana 8Kentucky 7Minnesota 7Washington 7Wisconsin 7Alaska 6Idaho 6Vermont 6Arizona 5California 5Iowa 5Louisiana 5North Dakota 5South Dakota 5Hawaii 4Illinois 4Missouri 4New Mexico 4New York 4Arkansas 3Maine 3Michigan 3
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