Encouraging Adaptation to Climate Change: Long Term Flood Insurance

Managing Heat Risk: Crop Insurance and Rural Economic Resilience

This working paper explores how extreme heat impacts crop insurance enrollment, finding that declines in crop yield from extreme heat do, in fact, increase enrollment.

The Seattle Times: “Spokane Wildfires Raise Homeowner Fears over Insurance Coverage”

RFF Senior Fellow Margaret Walls comments on rising insurance prices.

If/Then: Recent Changes to Federal Disaster Policy Will Speed the Delivery of Recovery Resources to Vulnerable Communities

If reforms to the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery program are implemented as intended, then lower-income disaster survivors will see faster, more predictable recovery funding. But broader reforms are still in flux.

Grist: “Congress Set to Overhaul Disaster Recovery, Speeding Up New Home Builds”

Carlos Martín, RFF’s Vice President for Research and Policy Engagement, comments on new disaster recovery policies.