The National Flood Insurance Program’s Market Penetration Rate

Estimates and Policy Implications

Lloyd Dixon, Noreen Clancy, Seth A. Seabury, Adrian Overton

ResearchPublished Jan 23, 2006

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Flooding is a major source of loss to individuals and businesses in the United States. Private insurers have historically been unable to provide flood insurance at affordable rates, and until the establishment of the National Flood Insurance Program in 1968, the primary recourse for flood victims was government disaster assistance. Congress adopted this program in response to the ongoing unavailability of private insurance and continued increases in federal disaster assistance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is currently conducting a major evaluation of the program’s goals and performance. This report contributes to that evaluation by developing more reliable estimates of the proportion of single-family homes (excluding condominiums) that have flood insurance (the market penetration rate); by identifying factors that determine the market penetration rate; and by examining some of the opportunities for, and the potential benefits of, increasing the market penetration rate.

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  • Year: 2006
  • Paperback Pages: 138
  • Paperback ISBN/EAN: 978-0-8330-3908-8
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/TR300
  • Document Number: TR-300-FEMA

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Dixon, Lloyd, Noreen Clancy, Seth A. Seabury, and Adrian Overton, The National Flood Insurance Program’s Market Penetration Rate: Estimates and Policy Implications. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR300.html.
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The research described in this report was funded at least in part with Federal funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and was performed by RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (ISE) and the RAND Institute for Civil Justice.

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