With the frequency of catastrophic flooding, one civil engineer says we need to change the definition of 100-year floods, and ...

The consumer group looked at 133 insurance policies sold by 67 firms, and said that nearly a third (32%) of home insurance ...

Weather forecasts sometimes warn of storms that can unleash rains so unusual that they are described as 100-year or even ...

Insurers are using potentially unfair definitions of storms and floods to reject claims made by customers who have had their property damaged, Which? research suggests.

Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme a flood is and how common these extreme events are becoming.