ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska’s western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents — largely Alaska Natives — repair property damage.
Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency paperwork expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup’ik or Inupiaq instead were reading bizarre phrases.
“Tomorrow he will go hunting very early, and will (bring) nothing,” read one passage. The translator randomly added the word “Alaska” in the middle of the sentence.
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People participate in an Alaska Native dance Jan. 20, 2020, in Toksook Bay, Alaska, a mostly Yup'ik village on the edge of the Bering Sea.
“Your husband is a polar bear, skinny,” another said.
Yet another was written entirely in Inuktitut, an Indigenous language spoken in northern Canada far from Alaska.
FEMA fired the California company hired to translate the documents once the errors became known, but the incident was an ugly reminder for Alaska Natives of the suppression of their culture and languages from decades past.
FEMA immediately took responsibility for the translation errors and corrected them, and the agency is working to make sure it doesn’t happen again, spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said. No one was denied aid because of the errors.
That’s not good enough for one Alaska Native leader.
For Tara Sweeney, an Inupiaq who served as an assistant secretary of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration, this was another painful reminder of steps taken to prevent Alaska Native children from speaking Indigenous languages.
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Tara Sweeney, a Republican then seeking the sole U.S. House seat in Alaska, speaks during a forum for candidates, May 12, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska.
“When my mother was beaten for speaking her language in school, like so many hundreds, thousands of Alaska Natives, to then have the federal government distributing literature representing that it is an Alaska Native language, I can’t even describe the emotion behind that sort of symbolism,” Sweeney said.
Sweeney called for a congressional oversight hearing to uncover how long and widespread the practice has been used by the government.
“These government contracting translators have certainly taken advantage of the system, and they have had a profound impact, in my opinion, on vulnerable communities,” said Sweeney, whose great-grandfather, Roy Ahmaogak, invented the Inupiaq alphabet more than a half-century ago.
She said his intention was to create the characters so “our people would learn to read and write to transition from an oral history to a more tangible written history.”
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, who is Yup’ik and last year became the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, said it was disappointing FEMA missed the mark with the translations but didn’t call for hearings. “I am confident FEMA will continue to make the necessary changes to be ready the next time they are called to serve our citizens,” the Democrat said.
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Rep. Mary Peltola, left, D-Alaska, acknowledges audience members singing a song of prayer for her Oct. 20, 2022, at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
About 1,300 people have been approved for FEMA assistance after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok created havoc as it traveled about 1,000 miles north through the Bering Strait, potentially affecting 21,000 residents. FEMA paid out about $6.5 million, Rothenberg said.
Preliminary estimates put overall damage at just over $28 million, but the total is likely to rise after more assessment work is done after the spring thaw, said Jeremy Zidek, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
While English may not be the preferred language for some residents, many are bilingual and can struggle through an English version, said Gary Holton, a University of Hawaii at Manoa linguistics professor and former director of the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Central Alaskan Yup’ik is the largest of the Alaska Native languages, with about 10,000 speakers in 68 villages across southwest Alaska. Children learn Yup’ik as their first language in 17 of those villages. There are about 3,000 Inupiaq speakers across northern Alaska, according to the language center.
It appears the words and phrases used in the translated documents were taken from Nikolai Vakhtin’s 2011 edition of “Yupik Eskimo Texts from the 1940s,” said John DiCandeloro, the language center’s archivist.
The book is the written record of field notes collected on Russia’s Chukotka Peninsula across the Bering Strait from Alaska in the 1940s by Ekaterina Rubtsova, who interviewed residents about their daily life and culture for a historical account. The works were later translated and made available on the language center’s website.
Holton, who has about three decades of experience in Alaska Native language documentation and revitalization, searched the online archive and found “hit after hit,” words pulled out of the Russian work and randomly placed into FEMA documents.
“We make no excuses for erroneous translations, and we deeply regret any inconvenience this has caused to the local community,” Caroline Lee, the CEO of Accent on Languages, the Berkeley, California-based company that produced the mistranslated documents, said in a statement.
She said the company will refund FEMA the $5,116 it received for the work and conduct an internal review to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
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In order to update information about property flood risk, the Federal Emergency Management Administration modified the methodology used in its National Flood Insurance Program evaluations for the first time in 50 years.
Changes in climatic and urban conditions required a rigorous review of the variables taken into account to accurately determine how vulnerable a property is to flood risk. The new costs of insurance policies generated by the national flood insurance system now depend on the results of the latest study, Risk Rating 2.0.
Potential threats have increased for 3.9 million properties out of the 5 million re-diagnosed. Consequently, the cost of insurance premiums was raised, much to the discontent of developers and property owners, especially those in waterfront cities.
The previous methodology tended to overlook the replacement value of any given property, which resulted in inequity for lower-value homes that lay within the same flood plain as higher-value homes. This inequity equated all properties on equal footing for flood risk, with no consideration of the actual value loss for each property, which forced the owners of lower-value homes to purchase insurance packages more costly than was necessary. The new approach now factors in the individual risk for each property or home, which in turn means more valuable—generally waterfront—properties will have their flood insurance premiums rise.
Despite the concern from many high-value homeowners, on a national scale, 86.4% of premiums went up just $10 or less. In 8.6% of cases, the fee increase was somewhere between $10 and $20, while in the remaining 5%, it surpassed the $20 margin. In contrast, the risk rate dropped for 1.2 million properties; as a result, so did the cost of premiums. The revised amount meant a discount of up to $100 for 70.5% of policyholders, while the remaining 29.5% were granted reductions of $50 or more.
Citing the latest data, Stacker dug into how flood insurance premiums will change across every state in the first year of Risk Rating 2.0's implementation. As of April 2022, all policies must follow the new ratings methodology.
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52,648 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 11,217 properties with decreased risk
--- 28.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 71.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 41,431 properties with increased risk
--- 88.7% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.2% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.1% increasing over $20
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2,250 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,932 properties with decreased risk
--- 26.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 73.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 318 properties with increased risk
--- 88.4% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.2% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.4% increasing over $20
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29,261 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 7,312 properties with decreased risk
--- 40.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 59.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 21,949 properties with increased risk
--- 91.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.6% increasing over $20
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14,397 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 4,771 properties with decreased risk
--- 43.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 56.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 9,626 properties with increased risk
--- 84.6% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 9.5% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.9% increasing over $20
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214,829 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 57,541 properties with decreased risk
--- 38.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 61.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 157,288 properties with increased risk
--- 86.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.1% increasing over $20
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19,983 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 8,675 properties with decreased risk
--- 30.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 69.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 11,308 properties with increased risk
--- 84.5% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 7.1% increasing over $20
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34,828 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 12,739 properties with decreased risk
--- 49.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 50.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 22,089 properties with increased risk
--- 73.7% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 11.9% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 14.3% increasing over $20
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26,147 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 9,845 properties with decreased risk
--- 21.7% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 78.3% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 16,302 properties with increased risk
--- 83.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 13.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.5% increasing over $20
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1.7M properties with reassessed flood risk
- 342,109 properties with decreased risk
--- 13.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 86.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 1.4M properties with increased risk
--- 85.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 9.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.3% increasing over $20
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81,998 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 19,929 properties with decreased risk
--- 31.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 68.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 62,069 properties with increased risk
--- 91.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.1% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.5% increasing over $20
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61,382 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 7,924 properties with decreased risk
--- 38.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 61.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 53,458 properties with increased risk
--- 90.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 5.3% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.8% increasing over $20
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5,645 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,580 properties with decreased risk
--- 37.8% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 62.2% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 4,065 properties with increased risk
--- 88.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.0% increasing over $20
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37,677 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 15,714 properties with decreased risk
--- 43.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 56.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 21,963 properties with increased risk
--- 84.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 9.3% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 6.6% increasing over $20
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20,081 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 9,162 properties with decreased risk
--- 48.4% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 51.6% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 10,919 properties with increased risk
--- 86.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.2% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.9% increasing over $20
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12,637 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 4,670 properties with decreased risk
--- 44.3% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 55.7% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 7,967 properties with increased risk
--- 82.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 10.2% increasing over $20
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9,565 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 3,630 properties with decreased risk
--- 42.3% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 57.7% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 5,935 properties with increased risk
--- 90.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 5.0% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.8% increasing over $20
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19,361 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 5,523 properties with decreased risk
--- 42.0% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 58.0% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 13,838 properties with increased risk
--- 76.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 14.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 9.0% increasing over $20
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495,923 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 101,171 properties with decreased risk
--- 36.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 63.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 394,752 properties with increased risk
--- 87.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.3% increasing over $20
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7,746 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 2,605 properties with decreased risk
--- 35.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 64.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 5,141 properties with increased risk
--- 76.8% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 9.9% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 13.3% increasing over $20
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64,942 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 39,903 properties with decreased risk
--- 14.3% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 85.7% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 25,039 properties with increased risk
--- 92.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 5.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.4% increasing over $20
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58,501 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 22,594 properties with decreased risk
--- 45.0% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 55.0% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 35,907 properties with increased risk
--- 80.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 9.5% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 10.3% increasing over $20
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20,481 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 11,120 properties with decreased risk
--- 43.7% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 56.3% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 9,361 properties with increased risk
--- 90.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.1% increasing over $20
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10,541 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 3,093 properties with decreased risk
--- 38.4% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 61.6% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 7,448 properties with increased risk
--- 90.8% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 5.3% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.9% increasing over $20
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61,317 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 10,047 properties with decreased risk
--- 40.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 59.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 51,270 properties with increased risk
--- 87.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.3% increasing over $20
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19,706 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 5,839 properties with decreased risk
--- 45.8% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 54.2% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 13,867 properties with increased risk
--- 77.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 12.3% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 10.4% increasing over $20
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4,339 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,617 properties with decreased risk
--- 38.8% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 61.2% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 2,722 properties with increased risk
--- 92.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 4.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.9% increasing over $20
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9,129 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 3,964 properties with decreased risk
--- 50.1% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 49.9% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 5,165 properties with increased risk
--- 80.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.1% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 11.7% increasing over $20
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10,586 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 2,196 properties with decreased risk
--- 49.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 50.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 8,390 properties with increased risk
--- 93.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 3.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.3% increasing over $20
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7,747 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 2,675 properties with decreased risk
--- 36.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 63.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 5,072 properties with increased risk
--- 76.4% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 13.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 10.1% increasing over $20
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217,178 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 46,318 properties with decreased risk
--- 43.0% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 57.0% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 170,860 properties with increased risk
--- 80.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 13.1% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 6.6% increasing over $20
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11,556 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 4,116 properties with decreased risk
--- 43.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 56.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 7,440 properties with increased risk
--- 86.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 10.5% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.4% increasing over $20
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171,099 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 54,008 properties with decreased risk
--- 44.3% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 55.7% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 117,091 properties with increased risk
--- 80.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 10.3% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 9.6% increasing over $20
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139,842 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 35,701 properties with decreased risk
--- 33.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 66.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 104,141 properties with increased risk
--- 88.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.1% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.7% increasing over $20
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13,161 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 5,020 properties with decreased risk
--- 20.1% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 79.9% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 8,141 properties with increased risk
--- 96.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 2.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 1.5% increasing over $20
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29,044 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 13,074 properties with decreased risk
--- 44.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 55.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 15,970 properties with increased risk
--- 83.0% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 10.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 6.4% increasing over $20
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13,024 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 3,851 properties with decreased risk
--- 46.0% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 54.0% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 9,173 properties with increased risk
--- 86.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.9% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.8% increasing over $20
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24,850 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 7,511 properties with decreased risk
--- 39.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 60.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 17,339 properties with increased risk
--- 83.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 11.2% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.7% increasing over $20
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51,555 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 15,572 properties with decreased risk
--- 47.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 52.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 35,983 properties with increased risk
--- 79.6% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 10.7% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 9.7% increasing over $20
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7,987 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 3,268 properties with decreased risk
--- 38.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 61.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 4,719 properties with increased risk
--- 95.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 1.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.3% increasing over $20
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12,001 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 5,520 properties with decreased risk
--- 50.4% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 49.6% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 6,481 properties with increased risk
--- 86.6% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.5% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.9% increasing over $20
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208,559 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 53,213 properties with decreased risk
--- 24.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 75.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 155,346 properties with increased risk
--- 88.6% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.0% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.4% increasing over $20
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3,743 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,148 properties with decreased risk
--- 51.4% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 48.6% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 2,595 properties with increased risk
--- 86.5% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 7.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 6.1% increasing over $20
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27,507 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 7,581 properties with decreased risk
--- 37.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 62.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 19,926 properties with increased risk
--- 81.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 10.9% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 7.2% increasing over $20
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768,537 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 106,720 properties with decreased risk
--- 36.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 63.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 661,817 properties with increased risk
--- 91.8% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 4.9% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.2% increasing over $20
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3,755 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 2,006 properties with decreased risk
--- 22.4% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 77.6% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 1,749 properties with increased risk
--- 93.1% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 4.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 2.3% increasing over $20
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3,330 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,103 properties with decreased risk
--- 55.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 44.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 2,227 properties with increased risk
--- 74.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 13.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 11.3% increasing over $20
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104,781 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 46,811 properties with decreased risk
--- 23.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 76.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 57,970 properties with increased risk
--- 87.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 8.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.3% increasing over $20
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32,547 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 10,717 properties with decreased risk
--- 42.3% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 57.7% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 21,830 properties with increased risk
--- 81.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 11.8% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 6.4% increasing over $20
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2,396 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 1,737 properties with decreased risk
--- 10.6% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 89.4% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 659 properties with increased risk
--- 88.3% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.4% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 5.3% increasing over $20
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13,337 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 2,325 properties with decreased risk
--- 49.5% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 50.5% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 11,012 properties with increased risk
--- 72.2% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 17.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 10.2% increasing over $20
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12,949 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 5,669 properties with decreased risk
--- 44.9% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 55.1% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 7,280 properties with increased risk
--- 90.5% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.2% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 3.4% increasing over $20
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1,705 properties with reassessed flood risk
- 561 properties with decreased risk
--- 49.2% of monthly flood insurance premiums decreasing $50 or more
--- 50.8% decreasing between $0 and $50
- 1,144 properties with increased risk
--- 88.9% of premiums increasing up to $10
--- 6.6% increasing between $10 and $20
--- 4.5% increasing over $20
