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Americans Are Moving Out of Flood-Prone Neighborhoods
After seeing an influx of residents during the pandemic, some the riskiest counties are now losing residents.
A view of damaged homes affected by Hurricane Helene near Keaton Beach, Florida in October 2024.
Photographer: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesThe American neighborhoods with the highest risk of floods are again losing residents.
For the first time since 2019, high-risk counties lost domestic residents, with 30,000 more people relocating to other places in the country than moved in, according to a new Redfin report. It's a sharp reversal from the pandemic years, when remote workers flocked to coastal areas and Sun Belt cities. Some of those counties, however, still had a total increase in population as immigration from overseas remained strong.