Counties that have higher than normal risks of flooding lost 63,357 more residents than they gained in 2025. According to data from Redfin, that number is nearly double the net outflow from 2024 when 34,099 more people in flood-prone counties moved out than in.
In contrast, low-flood-risk counties gained 69,857 more people than they lost last year—the biggest gain since 2018.
Redfin defines a high-risk county as one that ranks in the top 10% when it comes to the share of homes facing high flood risk – for this analysis, a share of 23.7% or higher. The migration data for this report covered July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025.
Florida’s Miami-Dade County led the nation by losing 72,254 more residents than it gained last year. Florida counties encompassed four of the 10 flood-prone places that lost the most residents in 2025: Miami-Dade, Pinellas (Clearwater and St. Petersburg), Collier (Naples) and Monroe (Key West) counties.
Harris County in Texas, home to Houston, had the second-biggest outflow of residents in 2025 by losing 43,377 more residents than it gained. Two Louisiana counties, Orleans Parish (New Orleans) and Jefferson Parish (part of the greater New Orleans area), had roughly 99% of their homes facing high flood risk, the largest shares in the nation.
“Climate risk is becoming a more important factor when Americans weigh the costs and benefits of living in a certain place,” said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin’s chief economist. “Repeated disruptions and damage from extreme weather are making it more expensive—and less predictable—to own homes and live in the most flood-prone parts of the country. It’s becoming more common for natural disasters to cost homeowners money in the form of rising insurance premiums and repairs. When people’s bank accounts take a hit, they’re more likely to genuinely consider living in a less risky place—or reconsider a move to a risky place.”
The People of the United States should band together for a class action suit against the White House and require Trump to admit the existence of Climate change and the damage he is responsible for.
The very moniker “climate change” was created by the oil and natural gas lobbyists and fed by oil-lobby-funded politicians to the media to present it as a naturally occurring process instead of calling it human-caused global warming. That strategy has worked incredibly well to deceive a significant percentage of Americans to believe that the warming of the planet is simply a natural process where we are continuing to move away from the most recent ice age.
36% of the American electorate believe that Trump is doing a great job as president. Think about that, 36%!
There is a vast highly funded alternative reality misinformation media machine coordinated to break down our trust in science and disciplined objective journalism so that these mega-rich oligarchs can consolidate and protect their power and fortunes. If you use any kind of technology or electronic payment these days, which is virtually impossible to avoid, you are being surveilled, packaged and sold at auction hundreds and even thousands of times per day so that you can be fed information that increases your own biases and prevents you from seeing the whole or real truth, whatever that is.
Trump himself has proven to be one of the most malleable among us and is easily manipulated to do the dirty work for the oligarchs while being packaged and sold to the American people as this super business man, when in actuality he is and has always been a silver-spoon spoiled brat who bankrupted his family empire many times over yet somehow lied effectively and repeatedly enough to convince the mindless masses that he is some kind of messiah.
While China has invested heavily in renewable energy since 1979 and now owns the industry, Trump is spending billions of dollars of taxpayer money to buy out and kill federally-funded offshore wind farm leases and hand out millions of acres of forest land to the oligarchs for oil, gas and mineral mining.
Meanwhile, Trump and his family have gone from being highly-leveraged millionaires to true multi-billionaires as he flagrantly violates the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution and sells us all down the river to the Russians, the Saudis, the Qataris, the Israelis and anybody else who will pay the piper, Trump.
As for your class action lawsuit, good luck with that; Trump and the oligarch-owned Republicans in the Senate have stacked the federal judiciary with so many yes men, all the way up to the Supreme Court, that even if you were to win in a trial, the verdict would be thrown out on appeal.