During 2018, participation in the private flood market continued to growth with 33 new companies reporting on line 2.5.1 Figure 1 illustrates the rapid increase from 49 reporting carriers in 2016 to 124 in 2018. New participation came predominately from the Liberty Mutual Group (12 companies), CNA Insurance Group (6 companies), Nationwide Group (4 companies) and Sompo American Insurance Company