German insurers plan to provide better warnings about the risk of flash floods during storms in future. “The July 2021 flood in particular showed that the flood simulations used to date do not depict flash floods accurately enough,” said Anja Käfer-Rohrbach, deputy managing director of the German Insurance Association. From next year onwards, the risk of sudden flooding will therefore be modelled, she said. This data will be fed into a portal that will help insurers to answer the question of which buildings are at risk of flooding and to what extent. So far, only the risks of flooding and heav…