Wine Country County Counts for Half of California’s Repeat Home Flooding – KneeDeep Times
On February 15, 1986, somewhere along the Russian River amid the quiet woodlands of unincorporated Sonoma County, a home flooded.
The same home flooded again in 1995. Then again in 1997. And again and again.
By 2019, the same property had flooded eight times since the 80s, and received more than $750,000 in disaster money from the National Flood Insurance Program. In nearby neighborhoods, dozens of other properties were flooding every five years or more on average, and one unit flooded 20 time