More than a quarter million U.S. properties have repeated claims for federal flood insurance, costing the National Flood Insurance Program billions of dollars in claims, according to new federal data compiled by the National Resources Defense Council.
Four states account for more than half of repetitive loss properties (RLPs), led by Louisiana with more than 43,000. Texas has the next highest with over 41,000, followed by Florida (26,700) and New York (20,400).
Information on properties with repeated claims for federal flood insurance was hard to come until this year, when FEMA published data on properties