flood insurance

Flooding is Kentucky’s most frequent and costly natural disaster. Yet, only about 1% of the state’s property owners have flood insurance. As Kentuckians begin cleaning up and rebuilding from April’s deadly floods, many of them say the cost of flood insurance is out of reach as experts say major flood events are becoming more common.

Elaine Tanner lives with her life partner, Jimmy Hall, at the head of Mill Creek in Letcher County, Kentucky. Jimmy is a sixth-generation Letcher…

A new analysis of flooding risk that accounts for the effects of climate change finds many more homes in Appalachian communities in Kentucky, Ohio and…