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Oakland County, MI

What floods houses here, and what the policy answers for.

Winter storms are what break pipes here, and the policy has a condition attached.

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Oakland County, measured

Homes in the flood zone
0.4%

Rising water is not the local risk. What comes out of the plumbing is.

July dew point
60°F

Airing out works some days and works against you on others. A meter settles it.

Days at or below 20°F
56

Cold enough that the policy clause about keeping the heat on decides claims here.

Median year built
1975

Homes of this vintage may carry polybutylene supply, which fails along the pipe itself.

Drywall cut away in a straight line above the water line, bare studs and wet insulation below
What soaked and cannot be dried through is cut out rather than dried. The height of the cut is decided by readings, not by how the wall looks.

The line most owners find out about too late

A homeowners policy answers for water that escapes suddenly and accidentally inside the house — a pipe, a hose, a water heater, an overflow. It does not answer for water that rises from outside, anywhere in the country. That is flood, it is bought separately through NFIP, and cover starts thirty days after you buy it.

It also does not answer for a leak that has been weeping behind a wall for a year. That is a gradual loss, and the mold that came with it is excluded on the same ground.

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