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(NewsNation) — One week since Hurricane Milton made landfall successful Florida cleanup efforts are underway, and truthful is caller construction.
New information shows tens of thousands of caller properties person been built successful high-risk flood areas contempt the increasing hazard of destructive hurricanes.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has said hurricanes volition not weaken the request for homes connected Florida's Gulf Coast due to the fact that there's ever going to beryllium a request to unrecorded successful beauteous places.
More than 16 cardinal radical successful Florida presently unrecorded successful coastal counties and that fig continues to spell up contempt the risks of hurricanes and flooding.
Climate modeling steadfast First Street Foundation told NewsNation that existent property developers person really built 77,000 caller properties successful high-risk flood areas since 2019. That's the highest fig successful the nation.
Nationally, adjacent to 300,000 caller properties were built successful high-risk flood areas betwixt 2019 and 2023, a fig that has been concerning for disaster-risk experts who accidental that successful galore states, it would lone instrumentality 1 good-sized hurricane to interruption the full insurance system.
"We got to a concern successful our state that, portion we don't suffer arsenic galore lives successful storms, our losses are rising due to the fact that we person much radical coming to the seashore and we person truthful grown our vulnerability to these storms," said Tracy Kijewski-Correa, a disaster-risk simplification specialist. "We person a clime that's changing, that's going to be, regrettably, the cleanable storm."
Kijewski-Correa said that portion Helene was an outlier successful presumption of lives lost, the property damage from hurricanes could pb to immoderate large changes. to insurance.
"That is astir apt going to necessitate america to reimagine insurance, possibly successful achy ways, and to commencement having much candid discussions astir retreat," she said. "Because determination volition be, for immoderate families, precise small anticipation of ensuring oregon gathering to withstand what mightiness beryllium coming."
The Federal Emergency Management Agency precocious looked astatine what are called severe, repetitive mislaid properties, a designation that covers homes that person severely flooded much than once. The bureau recovered that determination are 45,000 of those properties successful the U.S. astatine the extremity of 2022, with astir 3,100 of those successful Florida alone.
Ratings for Morningstar DBRS said, successful a study released this week, that it expects Hurricane Milton to beryllium among the apical 5 costliest earthy catastrophes successful the U.S., with insured losses approaching $60 billion.
Experts pass we are entering a hard concern with the security manufacture crossed the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, saying we request to physique amended earlier storms deed to mitigate the toll of damage.
