FEMA pays $714 million in assistance to Floridians after Ian - TCPalm

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has paid much than $714 cardinal successful idiosyncratic assistance to victims of Hurricane Ian successful Florida, according to recently released figures. The wealth was fixed to households successful 26 counties designated by national authorities arsenic catastrophe areas following the historical storm.

The FEMA funds spell to catastrophe victims who applied and qualified for fiscal assistance to assistance wage for replacing oregon making repairs to their home, oregon rental payments. The wealth besides covers replacement of indispensable household items and different disaster-related expenses, similar car repairs, childcare oregon impermanent lodging.

Payments to victims successful Lee County, wherever Ian made landfall with 15 feet of tempest surge, dwarfed different counties successful Florida. Victims determination truthful acold person received more than $290 million, oregon astir 40% of the full distributed. The adjacent highest areas were a premix of counties person to Ian's landfall constituent and those that saw superior flooding arsenic Ian passed crossed Florida. Volusia County was 2nd successful assistance ($64 million), followed by Charlotte ($59 million), Orange (almost $51 million) and Sarasota ($48 million).

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Fort Myers Beach, on with Lee County’s different obstruction islands, took the brunt of Ian’s battle connected Florida’s coastline. The storm, a Category 4 erstwhile it made landfall Sept. 28 at 3:05 p.m. adjacent Cayo Costa, sent 150 mph winds and a towering tempest surge tearing done the town’s center.

Ian pummeled the state  with crushing tempest surge, obliterating upwind speeds and torrential rainfall, leaving a swath of devastation from the southwestern coast across the I-4 corridor. The hurricane, the fifth-most powerful to ever deed the U.S., near countless homes and businesses wrecked oregon underwater and astir 2.7 cardinal radical without power.

Here is simply a representation showing the magnitude of wealth residents successful each region received done FEMA’s idiosyncratic assistance program, followed by a region by region list:

More than $1.88 cardinal successful national grants, catastrophe loans and flood security payments has been provided to the authorities of Florida and households to assistance survivors jumpstart their betterment aft Hurricane Ian.

In summation to the $714 cardinal successful idiosyncratic assistance to households, FEMA said this week it sent the Florida $322 cardinal for exigency response; $533 cardinal successful catastrophe loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration; and paid $313 cardinal successful claims nether the National Flood Insurance Program.