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Flood Insurance and Claims: The Impact of the Community Rating System

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  • Frimpong, Eugene
  • Petrolia, Daniel R.
  • Harri, Ardian
  • Cartwright, John H.

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The Community Rating System (CRS) was introduced to encourage community-level flood mitigation and increase household-level flood insurance uptake through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Using historical data of policies-in-force and flood damage claims from 1998-2014 for all NFIP communities in Alabama and Mississippi, we estimate the relationship between community participation in the CRS and the number of policies-in-force, as well on flood damage claims. We find a significant, positive, and generally increasing effect of CRS participation on insurance uptake. Reduced flood damage claims are found to be limited to communities with a very high level of CRS participation (Class 5) only.

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  • Frimpong, Eugene & Petrolia, Daniel R. & Harri, Ardian & Cartwright, John H., "undated". "Flood Insurance and Claims: The Impact of the Community Rating System," Working Papers 284989, Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:misswp:284989
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.284989
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    1. Ren, Yongwang, 2022. "The Spillover Effect of The Community Rating System," 2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California 322071, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Liao, Yanjun (Penny) & Sølvsten, Simon & Whitlock, Zach, 2024. "Community Responses to Flooding in Risk Mitigation Actions: Evidence from the Community Rating System," RFF Working Paper Series 24-08, Resources for the Future.
    3. Stefan Borsky & Hannah Hennighausen, 2022. "Public Flood Risk Mitigation and the Homeowner’s Insurance Demand Response," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 98(4), pages 537-559.
    4. Craig E. Landry & Dylan Turner & Daniel Petrolia, 2021. "Flood Insurance Market Penetration and Expectations of Disaster Assistance," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 79(2), pages 357-386, June.
    5. Liu, Xian & Noonan, Douglas, 2022. "Building underwater: Effects of community-scale flood management on housing development," Journal of Housing Economics, Elsevier, vol. 57(C).

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